| Rank | Private |
| Service # | A-29498 |
| Unit # | R.C.O.C. |
| Resident | Chatham |
Married and the father of two sons, LAC. Donald, serving in the RCAF and John T. W. was born in Coventry, England. His family came to Canada in 1919.
Pte. Russell had been overseas for some time. He was in England in November of 1940.
Curators Note: On the night of 14 November, 1940 the German Luftwaffe’s Kampfgruppe 100 had marked the city of Coventry for devastation. 400 German aircraft attacked and destroyed 20,000 houses, killed almost 600 people and injured thousands more and the leveling of Coventry’s famous cathedral.
Teds eighty-year old mother was living in Coventry on the evening of the attack and she was trapped under her stairs with a injured leg. Twice she had home blown out from under her, but survived. Ted brought back two souvenirs from the remains of his mothers house. A tattered photo of Ted and his wife that hung in her “sitting parlor” and a small silver spoon, bent in a circle with a shrapnel hole in the handle.
Ted was reported home from Chippewa camp to spend a weekend at Charing Cross with Mrs. Russell and family.
Ted had a reunion with his son Donald just four days after he arrived in England with the RCAF. They talked for hours about everything but the war. CDN 20/06/42.
Served in England. Invalided home June 16th 1942.
Date of Discharge: September 26, 1942
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