Today (May 8), marks 79 years since the Allied Forces of World War Two accepted Germany's formal surrender, meaning that the Second World War had come to an end.

To celebrate the 79th anniversary of VE Day, The Hunts Post is looking back at a 1995 edition of the paper with a VE Day feature to mark the 50th anniversary.

The feature looks at the parts that Huntingdonshire residents played in World War Two, including a woman from Holywell who signed up for the British Army.

Long distance love birds in the RAF

Ernest and Marjorie Ward, from Bluntisham, spoke to The Hunts Post about their five year long distance relationship throughout the war.

Ernest Ward was 19 when he was called up to the RAF in 1941, and had to leave behind his sweetheart, Marjorie, who was stationed at RAF Oakington.

However, in August 1945 when Ernest had a week's leave, he came home to marry Marjorie just two days after VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day).

A letter from 1945, written by a St Ives Sergeant who'd witnessed horrors in the Belsen Concentration Camp

A letter written by a Sergeant Abraham, of Oaklands Terrace, St Ives appeared in a 1945 edition of The Hunts Post.

Sgt Abraham talks of seeing monstrosities at the Belsen Concentration Camp, including people packed into huts "like sardines", and finding them "sleeping on dead bodies".

An interview with a woman who lied about her age to get into the British Army

Veanie Watchman, from Holywell, spoke to a reporter about her time as a driver in the British Army during World War Two.

At the age of 17, Veanie wrote that she was an 18-year-old on her army application form, and she eventually become a poster girl for fliers encouraging women to enrol in the war effort.

Sgt Watchman became a driver in the war, and told The Hunts Post: "We were just kids at the time. I barely knew who was fighting who."

The first Huntingdonshire victim in the war and a German plane crashing in St Neots

The 50th anniversary feature also has a column about the first person whose life was claimed in the Second World War.

The column says that a report in a 1939 edition of The Hunts Post mentions the death of a 16-year-old boy called Arthur Flack.

Arthur, who was from Earith, was killed in action on April 27 of that year while he was serving on a Royal Navy cruiser.

A German Junker Bomber crashed into a field on the outskirts of St Neots, which killed the entire crew. The only reported casualty from St Neots was a pheasant.

In August 1942, enemy aircrafts dropped four bombs on Ramsey. Two houses were directly hit, while 24 other buildings were damaged.

Three men and four women died as a result.

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