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Object description
Illustrated ts autobiography (22pp), written in 1995, describing in particular how in July 1940, at the age of fourteen, she was privately evacuated, together with her elder sister, from their family home in Wallington, Surrey to Canada, crossing the Atlantic on the DUCHESS OF ATHOLL and living with her uncle, first in Toronto, where she attended St Clement's School till her graduation in 1944, and then in Montreal, where she worked in a bank until returning home with her sister in January 1946 and also mentioning her subsequent contacts with some of the other 'war guest' children at St Clement's and her return visit to the school in 1994; together with two printed brochures (one original, one photocopy), original photographs and photocopies of short articles about Camp Shangri-La, a special summer camp in northern Ontario for evacuated British children which she attended in August 1941 and ts copies (12pp) of the responses to her surveys, in 1988 - 1990, of fifteen of the 'war guest' children at St Clement's School during the Second World War and of a few of the children of their 'host families' with some other related printed items.
Content description
Illustrated ts autobiography (22pp), written in 1995, describing in particular how in July 1940, at the age of fourteen, she was privately evacuated, together with her elder sister, from their family home in Wallington, Surrey to Canada, crossing the Atlantic on the DUCHESS OF ATHOLL and living with her uncle, first in Toronto, where she attended St Clement's School till her graduation in 1944, and then in Montreal, where she worked in a bank until returning home with her sister in January 1946 and also mentioning her subsequent contacts with some of the other 'war guest' children at St Clement's and her return visit to the school in 1994; together with two printed brochures (one original, one photocopy), original photographs and photocopies of short articles about Camp Shangri-La, a special summer camp in northern Ontario for evacuated British children which she attended in August 1941 and ts copies (12pp) of the responses to her surveys, in 1988 - 1990, of fifteen of the 'war guest' children at St Clement's School during the Second World War and of a few of the children of their 'host families' with some other related printed items.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1995-11