“He was actually shot in the chest but he had a New Testament Bible in his front pocket and the bullet went halfway through the Bible and stopped. And we still have the Bible.”
Interview with Meredith Westcott
October 18, 2012
Meredith Westcott shows Sarah Balint a studio portrait of her grandfather in uniform during WWII and reads a letter he sent home from overseas in January 1942.
He served as a private in the Canadian Army Overseas with the Canadian Ordnance Reinforcement Unit (CORU) in England and in Europe. She describes how he was shot in the chest but saved by a Bible in his pocket.
