Do you remember French orphans' visit? (From Watford Observer)

Do you remember French orphans' visit?

5:47pm Wednesday 17th September 2003

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A TELEVISION researcher is hoping people in High Wycombe will remember a group of French orphans who survived the Battle of Normandy and at the end of the Second World War spent a week in the town.

The group were refugees in France during the fighting until a group of Quakers helped them re-establish the orphanage in Paris.

While the group were in Paris they met a master woodworker from High Wycombe called Martin Murray who arranged for them to come to the town for one week.

Mia Certic, a researcher for American TV company A & E, said: "What we want to do is try and find as many witnesses as we can. It is the sort of thing people might remember."

If anyone has any information they should contact miacertic@ yahoo.com or write to 32 Boulevard d'Italie, 98000, Monaco

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