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 …
Letitia Simpson (1926-2012): War and Memory This memoir goes through only the Second World War in comparison to the other memoirs from the Burnett collection which go through …
William Belcher (1884-1961) – War and Memory Part Two This post will focus on how Belcher’s personal journey and experiences through the First World War challenged his beliefs and values. Belcher …
Claude Robinson (b.1898) – War and Memory One of the first things I learnt about Claude Robinson when I was initially discovering his past is that he experienced something …
Annie Lord (b.1899): War and Memory “… the 1914 soldiers use[d] to line up for there dinners in the High street Hornsey from the drilly Hall Bottom of …
Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890- 1977): War and Memory (2) I previously wrote about how Walter approaches the discussion of his experiences in the first world war, in War and Memory (1). …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): War and Memory Personally, I was terrified of the war, having seen pictures of fierce looking Germans in spiked helmets with dreadful bayonets, the Kaiser …
John Sawyer (b. 1914) : War and Memory (Part 2) John writes about the ‘incidents’, as he refers to them, that he encountered daily during the war, especially when he moved to …
Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): War and Memory. ‘What did you know about the Great War, as it was called – the background to four of your childhood years?’ (63) …
Adeline Hodges (b.1899): War & Memory War is a subject that Adeline dedicates much of the second section of her memoir to. It is mainly focused on her late …
