"Never forget for one moment that with every breath I take I say to myself "I love you Eunice and always will - honestly." The heartbursting words of a prisoner of war to his sweetheart waiting at home, before he was later sent on the 'death march' across Europe in the final chapters of the Second World War.
It would be months before Roland Hargreaves' widow mother, Annie, to whom he was her only child, and his sweetheart Eunice Lovell, would hear from him again. Believing he may be dead, the pair frantically continued to write to him, but to no avail.
They had no idea that Roland was one of some 80,000 western Allied prisoners of war forced to march westward away from the advancing Soviet army, across Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany in the height of a cruel winter from January to April 1945.
