When Reg Pye was a young soldier in France in the Second World War, he noticed a girl in need of food and instinctively gave her his own. Now, 78 years later, the pair have been reunited.
Mr Pye, now 99, spotted the 14-year-old girl looking at him as he ate his evening meal while moving through Normandy in June 1944, two weeks after D-Day. He was 21 at the time and serving with the 224 Field Company, Royal Engineers as a driver, carrying sappers, mines and ammunitions during the Battle of Normandy.
His meal that evening was a slice of jam and bread and a tin of pilchards. He gave the girl his bread and jam without a second thought, and she promptly disappeared with it.
