Ten years later back on the battlefield Overloon.

In an old Dutch Tilburg newspaper dated 4 November 1954, we came across this article in which a wounded British officer made an appointment with a Scottish soldier on 1 November 1944 to return to the Overloon battlefield 10 years later. Those who would not show up had to pay the other person’s travel expenses.
On exactly 1 November 1954, at 1 p.m., they both kept their appointments.

It would be wonderful to find out who these heroes were. As far as we are concerned, to be continued.

A brief summary of the article:

Ten years later back on the battlefield Overloon

Ten years later back on the battlefield Overloon.
At the British military cemetery of Overloon, two former combatants from the 1944 battles met yesterday. Their journey to this historic East Brabant battlefield was the result of a bet made after the Battle of Overloon (October 17, 1944).
Amidst heavy fighting, an officer was wounded and was rescued from the front line by a Scottish soldier. During this ordeal, the officer sighed: “I wish we were ten years from now,” to which the other replied: “Shall we come back here in ten years to see what it looks like?”, according to the Tilburgsche Courant.
On November 1, 1944, the officer and the Scot, who now lives in London, made an appointment to meet each other at exactly one o’clock in the afternoon at the British cemetery in Overloon ten years later. Whoever did not show up would have to pay the other person’s travel costs. Deeply moved, the two men shook hands on Monday. They had not seen or written to each other in the ten years. The agreement was therefore not to remind each other of the bet. The Scot, who is now a dockworker, had saved for five years to make the trip. The fact that they had seen beautiful white flowers from the local population on several graves of the fallen made this reunion after ten years doubly moving.