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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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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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On Friday 9 May 2025, during the break between the Ladies’ and the Gentleman’s Varsity Matches at Lord’s, I fell into conversation with Bob Barker, a retired policeman who has been a Pavilion steward …
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Rob, or Bob, Dear moved to Whitwell with his family in 1924, when he was 10 years old, and lived in The Bull on the High Street. Like many men of his generation, he didn’t talk much in public about hi …
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Born in Salisbury, Herbert Edwin (Eddie) Burton, was a Wiltshire man through and through but was enlisted into the Royal Warwickshires in 1942. Why the Warwickshires? He said that although there were …
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We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to everyone involved in the Far East during the Second World War. They were the people who ensured that the World War was finally brought to an end. Peace in the Fa …
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Joyce Marnie, whose grandfather George Marnie served in the Burma Campaign, recalls attending the 25th Scottish Burma Reunion. She was invited, along with Linda Kinghorn, to dance at the event which t …
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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 …
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My father, Albert Lawson Titley, served in the South Staffordshire Regiment which formed part of the 19th Indian Division. He recounted one incident when they were fighting the Japanese on opposite si …
