![]() When Brad returned home, he delved into old family files he hadn’t opened in years, and found his Uncle Peter’s autograph book. That night, Brad started searching for information about Roy online, and found a black and white picture of him from back home, smiling in the centre of a group of boys on a beach.Īlthough no other names were mentioned, Brad had no doubt that the boy standing beside Roy was his Uncle Peter. “I remember saying at the grave site, ‘They had to know each other,’” Brad recalls. It turns out that not only did Roy go to the same schools as Brad’s late uncle Peter Palin, they had lived around the corner from each other and were born in the same year. “It was bizarre to me,” Brad says, shocked to recognize so many details from the soldier's life before the Second World War. When the tour guide found out where Brad was visiting from, he took him to the grave of a fallen solider from the same city, and started talking about the life of Roy Pattinson. “It brings home what the loss of life was,” Brad says. ![]() ![]() When he first arrived at the Canadian War Cemetery near Juno Beach, Brad Palin was overwhelmed seeing more than 2,000 graves.
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