Molly Keen: Biographical Entry
2:449 KEEN, Molly, ‘Childhood Memories, 1903 to 1921’, TS, pp.35 (c.12,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1903 in Hounslow. Father a …
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 …
Joe Loftus (1914-1998): War & Memory
“I can understand now how men were brutalised by the idiotic slaughter and years of doing everything by army numbers, cut off …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): Biographical Entry
Jack McQuoid, “One Man in His Time: an autobiography”. Typescript. 328pp. plus 6 photocopies of newspaper cuttings etc. c. 1985. Part 1 …
Edward S. Humphries: Habits, Culture and Beliefs
Edward S. Humphries lead a wonderful and exciting life crossing three continents with the British Army. This dutiful and fulfilling lifestyle all …
Edward S. Humphries b.1889: Biographical Entry.
361 HUMPHRIES Edward S., ‘Childhood. An Autobiography of a Boy from 1889-1906’, TS, pp.63 (c.35,000 words). Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), Useful …
Wally Ward: Politics and Protest
Wally Ward, b.1914, wrote his memoir ‘Fit For Anything’ detailing his life with epilepsy in the twentieth century. Wally’s memoir is, on …
Fermin Rocker (b.1907.) : An Introduction
Fermin Rocker (22 December 1907 – 18 October 2004) Fermin Rocker, born on the 22nd December 1907 in the East End of …
Jack McQuoid (1910-1985): An Introduction
“Our lives do not begin and end by opening and closing like a book. Life could be likened more to a surging …
Fermin Rocker (b.1907): Purpose and Audience
Fermin Rocker’s 1998 memoir focuses on his childhood in Stepney before the outbreak of World War One and his positive relationship with …