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Happy ending for wartime mystery

The Welsh widow of a soldier, who rescued a woman and baby from Stalin's Russia, has been contacted by the child her husband helped nearly 65 years ago.

In 1945, Private Frank Jones escaped from a German prisoner of war camp and spent three weeks walking to Russia.

He met Sophia Guseinova and her baby Yashar and also helped them to safety.

After his death in 1992, his widow Chris from Denbighshire, discovered the pair had survived the escape and has been invited to meet Yashar, now 63.
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