Noel Gibbard
Noel Gibbard (1922 – 2018) was born on 12th December 1922 in Hornsey, London, to May Mallard and William Gibbard. He had an older brother and sister, Roger and Rosalie. His childhood home was in Folkestone but he was evacuated during the war. Noel trained at the officer cadet training...
Olive Elsie Leech
Olive Elsie Leech (1921 – 2023) was born on 7th June 1921 the first child of John and Elsie Dainton. Growing up in North Islington, London, Olive had to take care of her younger siblings, Ken, Albert, Jack and the twins Stanley and Edith as their mother was often unwell. ...
Olive Settle
Olive Settle was born on the 29th July 1928, the daughter of a senior nurse and a head gardener, and her childhood, growing up in the gardener’s house in a park, was a lonely one, though one which taught her to love nature. She signed up under age into the...
Olive Smith
Olive Smith (1938-2017) was born and raised in Harrogate, the younger of two children. She met John, her first husband, when she was 20 and lived with him in Singapore whilst he served with the RAF. Upon returning from Asia, she and John lived at various air bases in and...
Oliver Fyson
Oliver Fyson (1953 – 2020) was born in Witney on 31st October 1953 to Richard and Ella. He was the fourth of five children. He was the first member of his family to go to university. He studied engineering at City University in London. Once qualified, Oliver worked on a...
Olivia ‘Livvie’ MacDonald
Olivia ‘Livvie’ MacDonald (1934-2018) grew up in war-time Birmingham and remembers the Lancaster bombers leaving the Longbridge works near her home. She had a sister, Ruth, and a brother, John. Livvie learned guitar and performed locally in a folk band. She joined The Royal Signals as a radio operator in...
Otto Ephrem Carballo
Otto Carballo (1945-2018) was born and raised in Trinidad, the youngest of six. He won a scholarship to a prestigious secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago, and then to the University of the West Indies. He later won a government scholarship to study architecture in England. When he was 23,...
Pam Llewellyn
Pamela Llewellyn (1933 – 2017) was born Pamela Jones in Bromley on 28 September. She studied History at Birmingham University and then went on to obtain a PGCE in London, allowing her to become a teacher. She held a variety of teaching posts, eventually ending up as the Head of...
Pat Berry
Pat Berry (1927 – 2020) was born in Sunderland on 5th May 1927 to Celia and Leonard. She had two siblings, Celia and Len. Pat passed her eleven plus exams and attended Bede grammar school, where she became head-girl. She was only twelve when WWII started. Pat trained at Langham...
Pat Kendall
Pat Kendall (1934 – 2014) was born in Bethnal Green, London on 19 October, one of six children. She worked as a machinist and enjoyed sewing, travelling, and spending time with her family. Pat married husband Alan in 1955 and they remained married until her death. They had three children:...
Patricia ‘Pat’ Wright
Patricia ‘Pat’ Wright (1952-2017) was born on 1 May in Sunderland and raised in South Hetton, Hartlepool, and Seaton Carew. She was an only child. After training as a primary school teacher, she went on to spend 30 years as a special educational needs teacher, in the later years becoming...
Patricia Clark
Patricia Mary Clark (1933-2019) was born in the tiny village of Corofin, in Ireland, to Michael and Mary. At the age of 15, she was sent to stay with her sister in Cardiff to look for employment. She trained as a nurse and joined the newly-formed NHS, and specialised in...
Patricia Hosking
Patricia Margaret Hosking (1953-2018) was born in Gloucestershire to Jack and Margaret. She had three older brothers, David, Anthony, Colin and a younger sister, Sylvia. She married Keith in 1973, and in 1976 they bought a house in Oxfordshire where their four boys, Thomas, Robert, Michael and Kenneth, were born....
Patricia Legge
Patricia Legge (1940 – 2019) was born Patricia Ivall on 13 March 1940 in Alverstoke, Hampshire. The family moved to Duxford, where Pat grew up with her sister Fay and her brother Jim. Whilst working at Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge, she met Anthony Legge, whom she married in December...
Patricia Margaret Buxton
Pat was born on 17 August 1937 in Epping Hospital to Sidney and Gladys Jones the third of four children, Eric, Ron and Melvin. Pat went to school in Loughton and then to Walthamstow College. In 1956 Pat married Bruce Buxton and they moved to Derbyshire where Helen and Lynn...
Patricia Newell
Patricia Joyce Newell (1935 – 2019) was born in Swaythling, Southampton to Len and Mabel Hendy. Pat’s schooling was disrupted by the Second World War. Her school, Swaythling Primary was taken over by the Army and some of the soldiers, including Americans, befriended Pat and her sister Jan. In the...
Patricia Pinch
Patricia Pinch (1929 – 2019) was born in Barry on the 16th May 1929 to George and Iris Follett. She had an older brother, Eric, and younger sister, Jean. Pat left Holton Road school aged fifteen and trained as a hairdresser at Raymond’s in Cardiff. Once qualified, she became a...
Patricia Vera Barder
Patricia Vera Barder (1927 – 2020) was born on the 20th December 1927, in Finchley, London to Charles and Dorothy Hyman. She had an elder brother, Neil. At the age of 13, Pat was evacuated to Berkhamsted. She attended Berkhamsted School for Girls, where she enjoyed playing sports including, unusually...
Patrick Clerkin
Patrick Edward Clerkin (1931-2019) was born in Cavan, in the Republic of Ireland. He grew up on a farm with his mother, stepfather and siblings. His stepfather took him out of school when he was just was six years old to work on the farm. He never went back to...
Paul Duncan Sanderson
Born on 24th May 1946, Paul grew up in Chesterfield the eldest of six, often helping to look after his brother, Neil, and sisters Fay, Lori, Dawn and Tracey as his mother Betty, worked as a crane driver. He attended the grammar school and then Huddersfield Polytechnic. He met his future...
Paul Grunwell
Paul Grunwell (1956 – 2018) was born on 28 November, one of two children. He studied at the Bolton Institute of Technology and then went on to work for ITV as a Development Engineer, specialising in HD technology. He later set up his own computer and networking company and then...
Paul Jackson
Paul Ormston Jackson (1956 – 2019) was born in Shotley Bridge to Harold and Elizabeth. He had two older sisters, Mary and Dorothy. He attended Consett Grammar School and then worked as a trainee architectural draughtsman in Corbridge. In 1981 he married Brenda. James was born in 1982 and they...
Paul Schatzberger (Dr)
Paul Schatzberger was born in 1950 in Manchester to Rosie and Marc, and he had a younger sister, Lesley. Paul attended Manchester Grammar school, and then spent a year on a kibbutz before studying medicine at University College London, starting in 1969. There he met his future wife, Angela. Paul...
Paula Varley
Paula Margaret Varley (1952 – 2020) was born on 16th November 1951 and was adopted when she was four weeks old, by Barbara and Eric Wells. She had a brother, Kevin. Paula grew up by the sea in Westcliff and attended Grammar School, and had a particular talent for English....
