THE LAST time a Blackpool soldier saw his wartime Scottish lassie was almost 60 years ago, when she walked off without waving goodbye.

Royal Army Service Corps soldier, Kenneth Taylor, who lived in Horncliffe Road, Blackpool in the early 1940s, met Munitions Dept worker, Marion Aitken of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, when he was stationed at nearby Tillicoultry.

"We were very young then and we'd been going around together for about four months. We parted on bad terms," said Marion.

"Kenneth was due to fly out to Germany the following day and I just walked away from him without saying a word."

Three years after they broke up, Marion married and had two children, Archibald and Marion, and now also has three grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

But recently widowed Marion McLaren, 78, has regretted the mood of that parting ever since.

She contacted The Citizen to ask if we could put a call out to Kenneth or anyone who knows him, as she wants the chance to say sorry.

"I've never forgotten the way I treated Kenneth, who would be in his late 70s now. It was unkind."

"I've already made enquiries to try to get in touch with him.

"I just want to apologise and to know he's well and happy," she says.

Anyone who can help with any information about Kenneth Taylor is asked to contact The Citizen News Desk tel 01253 292005.