Reply To: Please spare two minutes at 11 o’clock.

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Phaedra
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    Always do.

    My daughter was asking about my mum and dad etc. (both deceased), as I had two older step brothers I told her about my mums first husband who died in WWII. She never knew where (or even if) he was buried as he was blown up difussing a minefield,  She had a vague idea of the name of the place somewhere in North Africa but we couldn’t find it.

    I was listening to one of Spike Milligan’s audio books and he mentioned a place called Medjez-El Bab in Tunisia, that sounded very much like what my mum thought it was called.  A bit of internet digging and I found out he’s buried in the war cemetery there.  Sapper Edwin Fritiof Rasmussen (his parents were Norwegian).  It’s a beautiful place, I wish I could have found this for her while she was alive.

    https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2813073/edwin-fritiof-rasmussen/

    Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!