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GI Baby Meets Father

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    "When Albert Gilmour needed his birth certificate to get married, his mother seemed reluctant to hand it over.
    When he had it in his hands, it revealed a family secret.
    Albert had enjoyed a happy childhood but in 1965, at the age of 21, he discovered his eldest sister was his mother.
    "It was a bitter pill to swallow," he recalled.
    Shocked to realise he had been brought up by his grandparents, Albert demanded answers from Ruby Gilmour - the "sister" who was in fact his biological mother.
    He asked about his father, whose name was missing from his birth certificate - and couldn't believe what she told him.
    Albert had been named after his father, Albert Carlow, from Calais, Maine - who was one of 300,000 American troops stationed in Northern Ireland during World War Two.
    Ruby was 17 when she met the young soldier while he was based near her home in Eglinton, County Londonderry.
    Albert's parents parted in the spring of 1944, when his father was secretly dispatched to the beaches of Normandy for the D-Day landings.
    When Ruby gave birth that November, she named her baby boy after his father, who she believed had been killed in action.
    Following the revelation, Albert said he "let matters rest" out of respect for his grandparents and mother.
    But almost 35 years later, in the late 1990s, Albert's daughter Karen Cooke decided to research her father's story as a surprise."
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