Pauline Evans
Pauline Fiona Evans (1959–2018) was born to parents Anne and John. She had four siblings, Steven, Helen, Nicola and David. Family was really important to her and she delighted in being a doting aunty to all her nieces & nephews. She had two children, Carrie and Nick. In 1999, Pauline...
Pauline Gene Wilsdon
Pauline was born in London on 29th December 1926. When she left school, she took a commercial certificate and found work as a typist and assistant secretary. She then trained as a physiotherapist and worked at Stewarts and Lloyds steel works in Corby before moving to Oxford in 1949 to...
Pauline Williams
Pauline Evelyn Williams (1941 – 2019) was born on the 28th April 1941 in Cardiff to Charles and Mary Taylor. She had a brother, Robert. She married Ron O’Dare in 1962. The first ten years of married life were spent at her parents’ house and then in caravans. It was...
Peggy James
Peggy James (1922-2018) was born Peggy Gower, in Newport. She boarded at the Royal Commercial Traveller’s School in Pinner. She graduated with the British Transport Police in Cardiff in 1948. It was there that Peggy met her future husband Aubrey James. Aubrey left the police to work for British Steel....
Peggy Newman
Peggy (Margaret) Newman (1923 – 2019) was born in Whitechapel, London, and named Margaret Clarke. She was brought up by friends of her natural parents.They moved to Hertfordshire and then to the West Midlands when Peggy was 12. She enlisted in the Land Army at 17, during the Second World...
Percy (Bob) Charles Rush
Percy Charles Rush, better known as Bob, was born on 28th September 1925 in the East End of London. He had three siblings, Millie, Kitt and Albert. Bob attended Manchester Street School until the age of 14. After a short spell working in a printing factory, he embarked upon a...
Peter Adams
Peter Adams (1940 – 2017) was born in South London on 26 May, the fourth of five children. He became a ‘barrow boy’ in the South London markets aged fourteen and ended up with twelve stalls across London. He also owned multiple shops, laundries, a recording studio in Soho, and...
Peter Collins
Peter Collins (1940 – 2021) was born in London on 26th February 1940, the eldest son of Eileen and Patrick Collins. Peter’s siblings were Anne, Andrew and Michael. Due to their father being an RAF pilot, the family moved many times, living in Singapore and Hong Kong. Peter started school,...
Peter Fuller
Peter Denis Fuller (1924 – 2019) was born in Brentwood to Herbert and Lavinia. He had an older brother, Harry. The family moved to Luton, where Peter joined a firm of chartered accountants. When he was 18, Peter joined the RAF, serving in Burma and India. After the war, Peter...
Peter Richard Ask
Peter Richard Ask (1946 – 2020) was born in Sheffield on 7th August 1946, to Richard and Kathleen. He had two sisters, Pauline and Julia. They grew up in Wisewood. He preferred hiking and rock-climbing to school and once led a Youth Association expedition. He was also a talented table...
Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders (1926 – 2020) was born on 30th July 1926 in Johannesburg. He spent his early childhood in South Africa. He and his sister, Jane, were sent to boarding school in Kent. Peter completed his schooling at Blundell’s in Devon. He was called up in 1944. As an ex-serviceman,...
Peter Smith
Peter Ignatius Smith (1947–2019) was born in Belfast, the second child of Terry and Bridget. He had a brother, Terry and sisters, Nora and Kathleen. When Peter was eleven, the family moved to Barry. He joined the Army Cadets and later joined the TA. This gave him a life-long interest...
Peter Start
Peter John Start (1932 – 2019) was born in Southwark, the second youngest of Charles and Marguerite’s six children. Peter was evacuated during the war, to a farm in Cornwall. When he was back in London, he finished his schooling at St John’s, near Waterloo, becoming the head prefect. He...
Peter Thorley
Peter Eric John Thorley (1956-2018) was born in Holbridge, Essex but moved to Suffolk when he was seven years old. He attended Clare secondary school. Peter joined the British Army in 1971, and became a member of The Royal Anglian Regiment and was stationed in West Germany, The Gambia and...
Peter Weaver
Peter Weaver (1938 – 2019) was born in Wakefield to Peggy and Bill. He was the eldest of seven children, Michael, Terry, Maureen, Brian, Christine and Gary. Peter left school at fifteen, going into a plumbing apprenticeship at Gillot’s in Wakefield. He spent his National Service with the Royal Engineers,...
Peter William Hardisty
Peter William Hardisty (1931 – 2021) was born in Leeds on 29th June to William and Jessie Hardisty, a younger brother to Molly. Peter joined the Green Howards, where for seven years he spent time serving in Malaya and in the UK he was stationed on Salisbury Plain. Peter married...
Peter Wisbey
Peter Richard Wisbey (1950 – 2020) was born on 21st May 1950 to Lilian and Harry. He had two sisters, Sue and Jayne. They grew up in Wood Green. Pete passed the 11 plus and went to the Stationers’ grammar school. He later moved to the London Nautical School. He...
Philip Sears
Philip Sears (1946–2019) was born in Birmingham to Herbert and Irene. He had an older brother, David. They moved to Leatherhead when Philip was still young. He went to Kingston Grammar School, where he captained the school swimming team. Philip was a talented musician, guitar player and singer. He performed...
Phyllis Mansfield
Phyllis Dorothy Mansfield (1922-2018) Phyll was born Phyllis Dorothy Rice in North London to Alexander and Florence Rice. She had a brother, Alec and a sister, Iris. During WW2 Phyll joined the Communist Party where she met her future husband, Geoffrey Mansfield, for whom she worked as election agent. Their...
Phyllis McDonald
Phyllis Evelyn McDonald (1929 – 2020) was born in East London on 20th August 1929, the youngest daughter of Edward and Elsie Gunn. She had two elder siblings, Renee and Bob. At the age of 11 she entered West Ham Municipal Secondary School, which became Stratford Grammar School in 1945....
Phyllis Parry
Phyllis Parry (1926 – 2020) was born in Leeds on 17th August 1926, the only child of Percy and Florence Diamond. When Phyllis was two, her family moved to London where she lived with her mum and three maiden aunts. She attended Camden School for Girls and during the war,...
Prudence (Pru) Mary Stephanie Winder
Pru was born in Cudworth near Barnsley, one of four children. Her siblings were Mick, Sue and Hilary. Their father worked for the Coal Board and their mother was a teacher. Pru attended the local convent school followed by Notre Dame Catholic Girls Grammar school in Leeds. In 1964, after...
Ralph Martin
Ralph Trevor Martin (1947-2017) was born in St Albans to Blanche Kirkman and Reginald Martin. He had a sister, Josie. As a young man Ralph was very practical. He even built his own hovercraft and wired a friend’s house. He taught woodwork for a year, after which he had several...
Ralph Southard
Ralph Earnest Southard (1927-2019) was born into the family of Hilda and Frank Southard, a younger brother to Frank. It was a close family with many relatives living nearby. Ralph was raised in Southampton and remembered the German bombers over Southampton during the war. At the age of fourteen, Ralph...
