Tag Archives: Second World War

Nov 2011: For today’s freedoms, thank Alec . . .

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Alec Evans shares his 90th birthday with the Royal British Legion.
. . . and all those who fought on our behalf. Neil Thomas hears this Shropshire hero’s wartime reminiscences
It is now so long ago that it might be a dream. Alec Evans drives his truck along a makeshift ramp onto a beach, amid a cacophony […]

May 2008: Back from the brink

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The tenacity and instinct for survival shown by prisoners in the most notorious concentration camp of World War II went far beyond heroism. But Ben Bentley still finds warmth, humour and humility in the person of Charlie Evans, one of our last living Auschwitz survivors