article_snippet.sent: The teenager helped build a bridge in the days that followed and continued working on bridges and roads to help Allied troops as Allied troops headed for Germany.
article_snippet.sent: The teenage miner worked with the pit ponies.
article_snippet.sent: When the fighting ended the ambassador returned to Cumbria to work in the quarries and eventually moved down to South Yorkshire to work in a steel works.
article_snippet.sent: the ambassador is now aged 97 and living in Mexborough, South Yorkshire.
article_snippet.sent: the ambassador was an engineer whose job was to repair damaged vehicles.
article_snippet.sent: After the war the ambassador returned to working in the cotton mills at Silsden, West Yorkshire, and rose to become a manager.