Dashing Young Airman Swept Me Off My Feet - but Our Love Was Doomed

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By DAVE ROBSON IT WAS a doomed wartime love story that started with a seaside kiss - and ended with a single red rose placed on a grave 65 years later.

For Mair Williams, 81, memories of that one long-ago day she spent on Porthcawl beach with dashing airman Sergeant Miles Cottingham have burned bright in the memory since 1944.

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Dashing Young Airman Swept Me Off My Feet - but Our Love Was Doomed

But their dreams of a happy future together came crashing down before they could meet again, when he was killed in action just weeks later.

Mair, originally from Caerau, near Bridgend, recalled the brief encounter after her lost love's grave was tracked down for one final poignant tribute.

"The wolf...

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