The following is a coincidence story from World War II and is taken from the BBC website. It may not appear very spectacular, because of the laid back style of writing, but to the person concerned it seemed quite remarkable at the time."I wanted to fly so I volunteered for the RAF as call up approached - so I had the initials VR on my uniform. I was asked where I wanted to do my flying training and chose Rhodesia. At Christmas 1942 the cadet pilots like myself were asked if we would like to go to a local family who had offered us hospitality over the Christmas holiday.
I put my name down and on the appointed day was dropped with the other cadets at a hotel to await our hosts. I went with family who owned a gold mine. They said they wouldn’t be giving us any gold but we could have everything else. It was a lovely time even though we were far from home.
When I left I was told I was welcome to come and visit them whenever I had some leave. I made several return visits. On one of these we were looking at their photo album and I pointed to on photo and said that is Mr and Mrs Codling and their two daughters. My hostess replied that they were her aunt and uncle.
When I eventually returned to England, after flying in the desert and more training in South Africa, I met the Codlings at church and told them I had met their niece."
- Ken Jones WW2 People's War
WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at WW2 People's War
nice story about where he stayed and then met up afterwards with their relations. as you have said on prev posts this is like it was meant to happen
ReplyDeleteThis kind of synchro defies the odds. Really, when you think about it, at any point along the way, different decisions could have been made that would have changed everything. Cool post.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in coincidences, everything happens for a reason. Wonderful post!
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