Anita Elizabeth Hughes (Born 1892): War and Memory
The First World War only occupies a few paragraphs in Anita Elizabeth Hughes’s biography. The only aspects of her life she says …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Education and Schooling Part One
The village elementary school which came under the auspices of the church, was a very good one (13) This post is the …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Life writing, class and identity.
‘But your nursey years were running to a close, your private school years, your childhood years. All running to a close, coming …
R.W. Morris b.1895: War and Memory.
During WW1 Richard W. Morris was posted, by the Navy, at Malin Head in Ireland at the Wireless Station. This experience is …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) War and Memory Part 1
Then I received a letter to report to Bulford Camp as Heavy Goods driver in RASC where I did my Army training …
Edward S. Humphries: War and Memory Part One
This post concerns Humphries military career pre World War One. Before the First World War he had been a soldier for eight …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) War and Memory Part 2
I was returning from one of these trips across Dartmoor when I was tailed by a Red Cap. He said ‘Pull in’; …
May Jones: War and Memory
“I knew then that I should die an old maid, I was only twenty years old” May’s memoir is about her childhood …
May Rainer War and Memory (b. 1909)
In the beginning of May Rainer’s memoir, she writes about her Grandfather’s time during the Zulu War and how it affected his …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Biographical Entry
783 VERE, Percy [pseud. of H.V. SMITH], ‘The Autobiography of a Working Man’, TS, pp.10 (c.6,500 words). Brunel University Library. Born …