Teviot Valley veterans Forbes Knight (left) and Ken Bain take a few emotional moments to remember, during the Roxburgh service on Anzac Day. PHOTO YVONNE O'HARA
About 200 people attended the 7am Anzac service in Roxburgh to hear long-time resident and former community board member Helen Pinder talk about her father Flying Officer Les Davidson, of 101 Squadron.
She said he was skipper on the Lancaster bomber LM395, or 'Q' for Queenie as the crew called her.
He and the other six crew members were shot down over Dortmund in the Ruhr Valley on May 22, 1944.
He and two crew members were captured while the others died and they spent the rest of the war as prisoners of war.
Mrs Pinder wears a tiny caterpillar pin, representing her father's membership of the Caterpillar Club, an informal club for those who have had their lives saved with a parachute in an emergency.
