Bruce Wiggins Interview

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I'll be interviewing my 62 year old grandmother. she will be telling me about her father, served in World War II. My grandmother's name is Barbara Fernandez, and her father's name was Bruce Wiggins. Bruce was born on May 10th, 1919. Barbara was not yet born when her father was in World War II, as the ended in 1945. she was born in 1953. the food was cheap but it was rationed. traveling was almost impossible, only by boat from Canada to England and the spaces were only available to the armed forces.

Bruce was stationed in France at the age of twenty. He was a lieutenant in the army and was a member of the Manitoba Dragoons in Canada. Bruce Wiggins was shot in the back by a German prisoner in 1944. He was paralyzed and returned to Canada.

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