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On 22 February 2024, I met Frank Proctor in his flat in Southampton after his son, Tom, had kindly collected me from Southampton Airport Parkway. Frank had first come to my attention because of an art …
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Bob Taylor served on HMS Activity, which in company with the CVE HMS RULER sailed with convoy KM39 departing from the Clyde on January 29th 1945 for Gibraltar. On February 2nd the carriers detached fr …
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David (Dave) Charles Clark, fourth son and eighth child (of eleven) of Godfrey Charles Clark, dairyman and later refuse collector, of 35 Murray Road, South Ealing and his wife Ethel, only daughter of …
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The Badge of this unit was a black ace of spades on a green background The Division was formed in Southern India in August 1943, under the Command of Maj/Gen HL Davies (CBE DSO MC). They were part …
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2nd Lieutenant Leslie Lisney was born in Bray in County Dublin to an English father and an Irish mother. His father, Arthur Lisney, had been a land surveyor and set up an estate agents called Lisney a …
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Arthur Abraham Lawson was born on 19 April 1922, the second of four sons of Jack (Jacob) Lawson, a jeweller who later became a gentleman’s tailor, and his wife Rachel, eldest child of Solomon Gordon ( …
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George Ingram Durrant was born at 16 Wadhurst Road, Nine Elms, Battersea on 4 July 1924, second son of Arthur Ingram Durrant, licensed victualler, of 333 Eversleigh Road, Battersea and his wife Emily …
