A Scottish family’s trip to Guernsey to remember their hero grandad’s war efforts has been scuppered by the corona crisis.Glasgow-born Sergeant-Major Robert Shaw was the first British soldier to land on the island after its liberation from German occupation at the end of World War II.In a moment that has gone down in Guernsey’ folklore, he rode off a landing craft on a motorbike and was mobbed by the locals.Eleven members of his family had planned to travel from Glasgow and across the UK to meet up on the Channel Island yesterday(FRI).The group including his super-proud great-grandchildren, who are eight years old.His granddaughter, Rachael Newton, from Windsor, said she was sad the trip was put-off because Robert had talked about the
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