This week’s pictures from the past

Friday 6th November 2009, 10:11AM GMT.

Sergeant Tom Humphreys, left, of the RAF Regiment, with Bobby Brown

Shrewsbury’s Sergeant Tom Humphreys, of the RAF Regiment, poses at Kiel, Germany, with a colleague a day or two after the end of World War Two in May 1945.

Mr Humphreys, who will be 90 in April, lived at the outbreak of war at Coton Hill.

In retirement he lived in Rushbury and then All Stretton, but is now in Sandford nursing home in Church Stretton.

With this being the time of remembrance, he thought this photo would “reflect the pride and joy we felt at the defeat of evil and the end of hostilities in Europe.”

He is on the left. He landed at Normandy around three weeks after D-Day, and saw action with a 3ins mortar platoon.

The photo was taken at the airfield and seaplane base at Kiel and he says the aircraft in the background is a Dornier flying boat.

“Although I am thankful for a long and happy life, much that has happened since then leaves me saddened that so much conflict and suffering has continued after such great sacrifices were made.

“When will man learn to live in peace and understanding?” he says.

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