Remembrance

Minesweeper Don Adams loved the Navy As chief of the engine room aboard a minesweeper boat, Mr Adams would make sure the seas were cleared of potentially fatal explosives so other ships could pass through safely.

Jim Sheader - Royal Air Force and member of the Burma Star A FISHERMAN from the age of 14, Scarborough lad Jim Sheader decided to have a "change of scenery" when war broke out and joined the airforce.

Poppy seller Stephen Deyes HUNDREDS of young soldiers will remember poppy seller Stephen Deyes. The former soldier spent five years teaching youngsters the basics of being in the forces as an instructor of the Combined Cadet Forces at Scarborough college.

Doug's echoes of war that will never fade This week marks the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal in the run-up to Sunday's Armistice Day which dates back to the end of the First World War.

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