A 99-year-old veteran who fed a French girl during the Second World War has been reunited with her 78 years on.
During the Battle of Normandy, Reg Pye served with the Royal Engineers as a driver carrying sappers, mines and ammunitions.
While moving through Normandy, 14 days after D-Day in June 1944, Mr Pye spotted a 14-year-old girl staring at him while he ate his evening meal - a slice of bread with jam and a tin of pilchards.
Aged 21 at the time, Mr Pye handed his bread and jam over to the girl who ran away to eat it.
The following morning he found the girl had half-filled his mess tin with milk and left a handwritten note on the back of a picture of herself, which Mr Pye then kept in his wallet ever since...
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