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Leslie Collins, left, and Joan Binnie, making tea in Binnie's home on February 8. The two neighbors recently returned from Ferne, Alberta where they officially sent off the guitar and papers to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

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Musical lifeline: Guitar owned by POW takes a place in history at Canadian war museum
February 27, 2011 2 a.m.

Musical lifeline: Guitar owned by POW takes a place in history at Canadian war museum

During the endless hours as a prisoner of war in World War II, Alfred “Alf” Binnie’s guitar was an instrument of survival.