HAPPY MEETING

Writing to her aunt, Mrs. Holroyd, of 1 Cardwell Terrace, Knottingley, Private Sally Haigh of the A.T.S. serving with the British North African Forces, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Haigh of 27 Broomhill, Knottingley, describes an unexpected happy meeting with her cousin, Rifleman H. V. Holroyd, known in Knottingley as 'Verdi'.  Private Haigh says;

"He came up to my depot at dinner time yesterday so we had a good half day together.  Believe me, when they came and told me a soldier wanted me I wasn't going out to see, I thought they were having me on.  But when I got out there and saw him there, well, I just cried on his shoulder, I was so happy. He looks well, and is alright, so you have nothing to worry about, We have a Sergeant Macready, she's good to us, she made him have his dinner too and he had to sit among the girls to have it. He says he may be coming home soon, but wouldn't it be awful to me if he had to go home after I've just met him - still I would like to see him going home all the same, he's done his share of fighting if he never does anymore, I've prayed to God to meet him and now my prayers have been answered and I'm so happy.  Meeting him has made me feel as though I'm at home a bit."

Rifleman Holroyd has been abroad for two years and three months and Private Haigh arrived in the same area in January.

Copied From Pontefract and Castleford Express March 31st 1943

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