Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Carl Frederick VanRooyen

Royal Air Force

from:Bulowayo, Rhodesia

My father, Carl VanRooyen volunteered for the RAF from Rhodesia and was stationed at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. He was a ground crew technician, repairing aircraft for bombing missions after they were damaged. My parents met at Sand Hill Farm where my Mom was born. Her name was Kathleen Smith. A pathfinder bomber crashed in one of the farms drainage dykes on take off due to engine failure. My father came to "mop up" and met and married my mom. Consequently my brother and I were born in Salisbury, Rhodesia after the war.



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