Description
Object description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (32pp), written in the 1990s, covering her experiences as the youngest child of a regular RAF officer who was evacuated with her school from North London to an empty hotel in the village of Rock in Cornwall (? autumn 1940 - summer 1942) and then, after her father was promoted to Group Captain and posted to the RCAF station at Debert in Nova Scotia, Canada, crossed the Atlantic with her mother on the QUEEN MARY (September 1942) and lived with her, first in an apartment in Truro, Nova Scotia (October 1942 - ? winter 1943) and, after her father was posted back to the United Kingdom, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (? winter 1943 - summer 1944), before returning home with her mother on the RANGITIKI and living again at their family home in Sway, Hampshire; together with laser copies of a photograph and drawings of the house in Sway. Although the memoir contains relatively few dates, it does usefully contrast her feelings about life as an evacuee in Cornwall, where the countryside provided one of her few pleasures, and in Canada where, despite her mother's homesickness, both her education and her social life proved far more satisfactory, and it also touches on the impact on her family of the death in action of her eldest brother, who served in submarines, and the service of her other brother who, after training in Florida, became a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm.
Content description
Photocopy of a ts memoir (32pp), written in the 1990s, covering her experiences as the youngest child of a regular RAF officer who was evacuated with her school from North London to an empty hotel in the village of Rock in Cornwall (? autumn 1940 - summer 1942) and then, after her father was promoted to Group Captain and posted to the RCAF station at Debert in Nova Scotia, Canada, crossed the Atlantic with her mother on the QUEEN MARY (September 1942) and lived with her, first in an apartment in Truro, Nova Scotia (October 1942 - ? winter 1943) and, after her father was posted back to the United Kingdom, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (? winter 1943 - summer 1944), before returning home with her mother on the RANGITIKI and living again at their family home in Sway, Hampshire; together with laser copies of a photograph and drawings of the house in Sway. Although the memoir contains relatively few dates, it does usefully contrast her feelings about life as an evacuee in Cornwall, where the countryside provided one of her few pleasures, and in Canada where, despite her mother's homesickness, both her education and her social life proved far more satisfactory, and it also touches on the impact on her family of the death in action of her eldest brother, who served in submarines, and the service of her other brother who, after training in Florida, became a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 2005-04