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My parents Bessie and George Eaton were married 29th January 1942. My father immediately was sent to India. He was in the medical corps as he had studied medicine at Glasgow University. My mother received a telegram in 1943 saying he was missing in action. She of course was distraught. That week she went to the local picture house with her girlfriends. During the news reel there was footage of the English army in canoes in India. My thought that she spotted my father on the film. Afterwards they went to see the manager of the picture house. He got the film out and broke down the individual frames, so my mother could have a better look. She then postively identified that it was my father on the screen. The manager gave her the section of the film to keep. Several weeks later she had official word that he was alive and well. She always kept the part of the film in a violet coloured silk chocolate box along with other photos and mementoes.

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