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A Remembrance Day Story
One generation enemies, the next friends.
I was born in 1943 during World War II in New Zealand. During this war, New Zealand lost eleven thousand, six hundred and twenty men, killed in action. One of them was a third cousin of my father. His name was Lloyd Allan Trigg, a bomber pilot and was the only Allied serviceman to be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross based on the evidence of an enemy combatant in the second world war.
He was born in 1914 and at the age of 18, joined the New Zealand Royal Airforce. After completing basic training, he was selected for pilot training and went on to become a qualified pilot. When World War II was declared, Lloyd and his aircrew were sent to Canada where they completed bomber training at an airforce base in Ontario. The crew were then attached to the Royal Air Force 200th Squadron and deployed to North Africa.
Flying Officer Trigg and his crew were assigned to a B24 Liberator aircraft.
Their duty was to search for enemy vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of West Africa. On August 11, 1943, they sighted a German UBoat on the surface, recharging its batteries. The Liberator attacked…
