My grandfather Dushan Chimbur, who has died aged 97, arrived in the UK soon after the second world war as a displaced person, fleeing war and persecution in Yugoslavia. In 1944, Dushan, his father and uncle embarked on a three-year journey across Europe, travelling on foot through Croatia and Slovenia, before reaching Italy, where they remained from 1945 to 1947. They were then taken to a displaced persons camp in Germany.
At the time, the British government’s European Voluntary Workers programme was recruiting individuals from those camps to fill labour shortages. It was through this scheme that he came to the UK and began to work on a farm near Abergavenny, south Wales. In 1950 he joined the steel makers Stewarts & Lloyds in Corby, Northamptonshire, later nationalised as part of British Steel, and remained there for 34 years.
