Memories of VE Day

Today marks 80 years since VE day - the end of WWII hostilities in Europe. Listen below to weel kent* Orcadian Brigadier S P Robertson as he talks about his experiences of VE Day whilst stationed in Hamburg, Germany. Robertson was born in Kirkwall in 1914. His earliest memory was sitting on the shoulders of his brother John who had returned home to recover from a shrapnel wound in 1918. In 1939,…