Two families went home with a sense of a partial victory on Saturday April 22.

Shere Lowe Of Blaine, B.C. says she felt victorious when she returned a Second World War photo album to Jim Heather of Vulcan on Saturday at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton.

Lowe's father John Fraser was bomb-aimer and Heather's uncle Ken Earnshaw was a navigator in the same Lancaster Bomber that was shot down over Germany as the Dam-Busters attacked the Mohne Dam in Germany.

Fraser became a prisoner of war and Earnshaw was killed.

Later relatives would trust so-called historian Alex Bateman with two log books and a photo album that he never returned.

Shere Lowe fought for 14 years and finally got to see Bateman go to jail for his crime.

Along the way police found the photo album, but the two log books are still missing.

"After the trial and the sentencing the word was relief...today, victory".  "Today is a feeling of righting a wrong and just victory and standing up for the whole cause of honouring veterans."

She says Canadians are a bit naive about the value of Second World War memorabilia.

"What we need to do is remind collectors and remind historians that families do care."

She is planning a publicity event in May in England with the offer of a reward to see if the missing log books can be found.

Bateman is serving two years in jail, the log books, worth about $15,000 each, have not been recovered.

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