Nora Isabel Adnams: Purpose and Audience ‘Well, Husband of mine and you, my children, this is the end of six and a half years of your old “Mum’s” …
Wally Ward : Purpose and Audience Wally Ward (born in 1914) wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ (2.798) during the 1960s, detailing his life as a sufferer of …
Margaret Watson (b.1907) Introduction “In spite of my many hard times I would not have my life any other way.” In 1912, when she was just …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Life and Labour The firm I was working for closed down, therefore I was out of work for the first 12 weeks of married life. …
May Jones: Fun and Festivities “Games somehow were seasonable and all the children of the village played the same games at the same time. In the spring …
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’; …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Illness, Heath & Disability The first mention of poor health in Percy’s memoir, is when appendicitis puts his marriage on hold. ‘ As on September 19th …
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 …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913): Introduction ‘Born the son of a flour miller March 1913. I well remember my mother holding me up to the window to see …
Edward Balne (b. 1895) Life & Labour Edward Balne’s life was given in service to the army as a trumpeter. This post on War & Memory will therefore have …
