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Harry Campbell

‘Wait for me, Daddy!’ photo’s Jewish story

October 10, 2020 Leave a comment

It has been eighty years since the Vancouver Daily Province published a front page photo of this five-year-old boy breaking away from his mother’s grasp to run after his soldier father.

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Filed under: BC Regiment, Eric Campbell, Harry Campbell, Lawrence Campbell, Montreal Aviation Museum, Orillia Terriers, Royal Canadian Legion BC/Yukon, Up the Dukes, Wait for me Daddy, Whitey Bernard

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