Malcolm Britton remembers his father wearing his old leather and felt boots as they trudged through the heavy snow together when he was a little boy.
It was too deep for Malcolm but his dad Jack had suffered much worse in those very same boots as a Prisoner of War for five long years from 1940 to 1945.
John William Britton, always known as Jack Britton, was captured by the Nazis at the start of World War II in Norway. Later in those sturdy boots he was forced to march for miles across Germany and parts of Poland.