read more http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Community/O ... r-rae.htmlArthur Rae, a former district sub-editor with The Courier — who daringly escaped from German-occupied Europe during the Second World War — has died at the age of 89.
Mr Rae retired from DC Thomson & Co Ltd in 1988 after a 47-year career interrupted by his service as a bomb aimer with Bomber Command and three years living in Canada in the early 1960s.
He was known to his many friends and colleagues as a humorous, helpful and modest man who made light of his war record, despite his heroic evasion of capture and escape after parachuting into occupied Belgium in 1944.
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