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RAt MXLUU»' JUY OF |LIBERATION MARREDBY SAD NEWSLAC DU BONNET—GrenadierRay Sellers elation at his arrival back m Canada, after years In a Jap prison camp, was deflated when, at Victor.** he was inform- j rd that his father. Richard Sel- . lers. dangerously ill Mixed | feelings of joy at being back and sorrow about his father's condi- ] tion must have made his a home-coming of confusion.Try* as he would, he was unable to get a plane back to Manitoba and was required to make the journey by tramLance-corporal Sellers arrived Friday, October 27th, and was met by his half-brother, Leonard Watson, a Grenadier who managed to get home by airplane, and his uncle Arthur Payette of WinnipegBay was employed in a shipyard near Toyko for a couple of years and, since Match of lust year, was carpentering in a Japcamp in Northern Honshu.Prisoners-of-war were always trying to buy cigarets and food from the civilians, he aid This was strictly “out as far as the Nips were concerned and they made sure that anyone caught red-handed worked and worked some more—and starved a little on the side
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Lac Du Bonnet Springfield Leader
Lac Du Bonnet, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Nov 06, 1945
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