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Soldier Information Cards - World War Two
Transcription
Andrews, Stephen
[clipping] Galt, April 1943
Stephen Andrews
Pte. Stephen J. Andrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Andrews, R.R. !, Galt, joined the Irish Regiment of Canada in April last year. He is now overseas and has joined his older brother Paul who has been in England for two years. Before enlisting Pte. Andrews was an employee of Shurly-Dietrich-Atkins Co. He is 19 years of age and is Roman Catholic in religion.
[clipping] 7 May 1945
Stephen Andrews Reported Missing
As the signals for Victory over Germany sounded in Galt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Andrews, Galt-Hamilton highway, read a message from the Director of Records which said their son, Cpl. Stephen J. Andrews, 22, had been officially reported missing in action on April 28. No other information was given. He was serving in Germany with the Irish regiment.
Going overseas three years ago, Cpl. Andrews went through a great deal of the Italian campaign without a scratch and then moved to the Western Front when other Canadian troops were transferred there. He was to have been married next month in England, his family related.
Last Friday a letter was received from another son, Paul, who related that he had recovered from wounds and was back in the lines again.
Besides his parents and his brother Paul, Cpl. Stephen Andrews has three other brothers, Joe, George and Frank, all at home; a step-brother, John, in Guelph; and three sisters, Mrs. J. Kodman, and Mary, at home and Mrs. B. Teres, of Guelph.
[clipping] 14 May, 1945
Cpl. Stephen Andrews Freed From German Prison on V-E Day
Previously reported missing, Cpl. Stephen Andrews was taken prisoner on April 28 and was released in Germany on V-E Day. This was the good news received Sunday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Andrews, Galt-Hamilton highway.
V-E Day will be long remembered by the Andrews family. It was a sad morning for the because while the bells and whistles were signaling victory over Germany they read the message which reported their son was missing.
When the message arrived yesterday and told them he had been a prisoner and had been freed on V-E Day, they realized that while they were reading in Galt that he wa missing, he was actually being released by Allied forces from a prison camp.