Soldiers Bag Found In The Egyptian Desert Returns Home After 60 Years
Source: LiveLeak - barnesy
Mar 1, 2008 - 7:05:16 AM
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An Egyptian tour guide who found a World War II soldier's bag which was lost in
the desert for 60 years has returned it to the man's family.
Kahled
Makram travelled 2,339 miles (3,765km) from Cairo to Burnley, Lancs, to return
the leather satchel lost by 8th Army despatch rider Alec Ross.
He traced
Mr Ross's family through a BBC website on WWII.
Mr Ross died three years
ago but his sister, Irene Porter, received the bag which contained letters and
photos.
Mrs Porter, 75, said she was eight when her brother lost the bag
while serving with the Long Range Desert Group in Egypt.
Mr Ross, who
settled in Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, after the war died three years ago at the
age of 87.
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