From Brunswick to Greece: One family’s wartime story of survival, sacrifice and memory

From Brunswick to Greece: One family’s wartime story of survival, sacrifice and memory

By Phil Cleary I was 11 years of age when I watched my grandfather, Teddy Dorian, stumble away from the kitchen table on route to the bungalow that had become his sleeping place in the Brunswick home he shared with his factory worker wife, Gladys.  It was Christmas Day 1963 and 18 years had passed since Teddy returned home from four years as a prisoner of the German Reich. Five months later, he died at the very table where I’d pored over his tro…