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In Memory of
Donald Taylor
Somerville
Somerville
1922 - 2017
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My memory of Donald
Donald was a special friend. I met Donald when he was looking for his comrade Harold Magnusson who is buried at the general cemetery where my parents are buried. Unexpectedly I met someone who experienced that horrible night of the evacuation to bring exhausted Allied soldiers from Arnhem area into safety.
One cannot describe my surprise when he appeared to live so close to the Polish veteran whose comrade Gajewnik got killed in that same night. Magnusson and Gajewnik’s bodies were recovered together about 80 km further down the river.
We visited Donald several times in his lovely house with the cute birdhouses he had made himself. He showed me that touching letter he wrote to his mother in 1941: “Dear mother I am sending you this as a souvenir as to always remember me buy. This is taken off a birch tree in northern Ontario on the banks of Ottawa river”.
Donald was a warm-hearted man. He taught me all about the 23rd FC Royal Canadian Engineers and he became a dear friend to me.
I never forget how he explained to a group of Canadian students who visited the Engineers Monument in The Netherlands what the evacuation really meant for the soldiers. Eight men had to carry the heavy stormboats with the outboard motor to the riverside and it was raining cats and dogs. Under constant fire of the enemy…
DONALD WE WILL REMEMBER YOU!
Posted by Alice van Bekkum, The Netherlands
Friday September 22, 2017 at 2:25 pm
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