Would like my DAD to hold a Lee Enfield No.4Mk1(T) after 70 years

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Cassidy and I visited Sandy earlier today, spent a couple of hours with him enjoying every single second.

He is such a humble man and really doesn't think his service was anything exceptional. He told us of a story about his father who served with the British Engineers and was in the south of England during WWI. Apparently his father was with a group that was digging a sap and during this training some explosives had been loaded. There was a accidental explosion and his father went into the sap to rescue a officer and a enlisted man who were caught in the sap. His father carried out the officer over his shoulder then went back for the other soldier and was awarded a medal for bravery for his actions. Sandy remarked his dad was a brave man, we told him he also was a brave man and you could see in his eyes he was somewhat surprised we said that...humble.

We spent a good amount of the visit talking about his action on the Scheldt, very interesting and we all know what a battle that was. He told us he was talking to a engineer who had found a teller mine, walked away and suddenly when he was 30 or so yards away there was a explosion and he thinks the Germans had booby trapped the mine attached it to one below that blew both when the engineer picked up the first one. Said it literally blew the man across the canal which Sandy said was a good 50 yards wide, very sad.

I didn't realize his squad of 8 was not attached to any one company but was assigned as needed by a intelligence officer. We joked how "army intelligence" are two words that don't go together that well, we all had a big laugh. Sandy did say he thought the intelligence officer didn't know much of what was really happening.

We had always intended to go back, it took a little longer than both of us thought it would and we were prompted by a call from Sandy earlier this week. Sandy loaned Cassidy a couple of books to read last visit and from his phone call he was a little concerned about getting them back...LOL. I told him we had already planned on visiting him on Friday so he was good with that. Today he gave Cassidy another book, telling him he was trusted as he brought the other two back. For 94 he still is very witty.

We will return to see him soon, we have another book to return!

PS, Sandy just celebrated his 94th birthady on Oct 14.