Private Papers of J Graham

Ts memoir (63pp, written in 1992) describing his family background and home life in South London pre-1939 and 1939 - 1944, as well as his evacuation as a young schoolboy to Horsham, Sussex, (September 1939 – Summer 1940), Botley, Oxfordshire (circa Autumn 1940 – Summer 1941), Petersfield, Hampshire (September 1943 - ?April 1944) and Worcester (Summer – Autumn 1944) with useful descriptions of rural living conditions, billeting problems and his mixed experience of foster families, the nature of his somewhat haphazard education (eventually as a pupil of Emanuel School), his reaction to the London Blitz and V Weapon campaign and to life generally in wartime London, with details also of taking part in a BBC overseas broadcast to the Forces and of VE Day celebrations for London schools.

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