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This week's Family Stories take us from an enduring friendship between a prisoner of war and a member of the Land Army to a rare wartime

sighting of Mahatma Gandhi and then back to the Blitz and the tale of someone's missing fingers.

We begin this week with the story from Carl Walls. My mother was 14 in 1944 and was in the

Land Army living in West Derby in Liverpool. She was working in a field,

and in the next field there were German POWs working the land. One day, my mother fell into a bog

while on the field and was quickly sinking up to her waist. She was crying out for help.

When a POW in the next field heard her cries, he immediately risked being shot and ran to her aid.

Using his spade, he passed it to her and she grabbed the handle. He pulled her from the bog.

After that, he was allowed out of the camp every week and went to her house to have Sunday dinner with our family.

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