An 101-year-old RAF veteran from Halifax has been sent over 5,000 cards for his birthday after staff at his care home wanted to surprise him on his big day.
Fed up Jack Annall couldn’t see his daughter who lives in Australia, nor could she hop on a flight to be with him, so Sandholme Fold Care Home appealed for people to send him a birthday card.
Vicky said: “He doesn’t have much family as his daughter lives abroad.
“I knew he was feeling a little bit down so thought, what can we do to lift his spirits?”
Jack, who has been a Sandholme Fold care home resident since 2016, has survived Covid twice but hasn’t managed to see his daughter since before the pandemic began.
Vicky initially asked other care homes in the area to send cards in the hope of reaching 101. But when the appeal was shared on social media, thousands arrived from around the world.
And for Jack, he could barely find the words to describe what he was feeling.
“Just amazed actually…I don’t know how it’s been done!”
Jack lived in Bradford for most of his life with his late wife May.
He served as a joiner in the RAF for more than four years during the second world war as part of Number 617 Squadron and worked on Mosquito planes.
