Bert Shinwell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 28th, 1925. Bert has two sisters and one brother; he was the third child. Unfortunately, the Great Depression took away his father’s job as a tailor. Bert left school at the age of 14 and started working to earn money. When the war came, he and his older brother both enlisted in the war. Bert served in an armoured regiment, and was part of a Sherman tank crew. He and his crew fought their way from Normandy all the way to Germany. When the war ended, Bert came to Canada and met his wife, where the two of them built a life together. Bert is now 95 years old, living in Sunnybrook hospital, where a group of Crestwood students interviewed him in January 2020.
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