Stephen Hazell
Stephen Hazell (1942 – 2019) was born on 22nd January 1942 in Paignton. He had three older siblings, Maurice, Julian and Judith. When he was still a baby his father was killed in the war and so Stephen was raised by his grandparents. He went to King Edward VI Grammar...
Stephen Merrett
Stephen Merrett (1939-2018) was born on 7 June in London’s East End. He was an only child. An exceptionally intelligent boy – after school he joined the RAF but he left after two years. He instead chose to study Philosophy and Economics at Bristol University. He later gained a master’s...
Stephen Riches
Stephen Frederick Riches (1958 – 2019) was born in Kent to Ruth and John Riches. He had three older brothers, Robert, David and Colin. In 1960, the family moved to Lound in Lincolnshire, where Stephen went to the local primary school. In 1968 they moved to Ringshall in Suffolk and...
Stephen Robert Ledbetter
Stephen Robert Ledbetter was born on 5th December 1953 in Birmingham, to Eileen, a housewife, and George who was a supervisor in insurance. Stephen’s brother Andrew was born in 1955 and the family moved to the southern outskirts of Leicester. Stephen went to Wigston Grammar school and on to study...
Stephen Whitham
Stephen Witham (1954 – 2017) was born on 23 February, the third of four brothers. He enjoyed motorcycling and loved dogs. Stephen married wife Carol at Witney Register Office and they had two daughters, Shenda and Louise, a son called Steven Junior, and thirteen grandchildren.
Stuart Jones
Stuart Jones (1966-2018) was born in Maesteg, the only child of Dewi and Gwynneth. He grew up in Nantyffyllon, attending the primary school there. Stuart left school at sixteen and gained his HGV and PSV licences. He lived in Cornwall, a place he loved as a boy, working as a...
Stuart Wilson
Stuart Wilson (1951-2018) was born in Sunderland along with twin brother Ian. The twins were followed by brothers Brian, Andrew and Peter. The family later moved to Leeds. Stuart studied at Falmouth School of Art and Design and graduated with a Fine Arts Degree in Painting. He then took a...
Sudha Young
Sudha Young was born on 5th November 1935 to Hiralal and Kalavati Topiwala. She was born and raised in Kenya, where her father worked as a GP. She had five younger siblings, Hansa, Mina, Panna, Harshad and Surbhi. After two years in pre-medical school, she was awarded a place at...
Sue Steward
Sue Steward (1946 – 2017) was born in Stathern, Leicestershire on 19 September, one of three children. She studied at the University of Liverpool and then began teaching biology. She later switched to the music industry and started out working in the mail order department of Virgin Records before becoming...
Susan (Sue) Mary Adams
Susan Mary Adams (1948 – 2021), Sue, was born in Bilston, West Midlands on 28th December 1948 to Jack and Nell Brown. The family initially lived in Ettingshall with Sue’s grandparents before the family moved to Finchfield. Sue, an only child, went to Westacre Infants and Regis Secondary schools. She...
Susan Morris
Susan Jane Morris (1959-2019) was born in North Cheam, the first child of Margaret and Peter Monery. She had two siblings, Dave and Carolyn. Susan went to Langley Park Girl’s School. She left school as soon as she could and after working at the Bank of England, and at the...
Sydney Buckland
Sydney Buckland (1917 – 2016) was born on 31 December in Bermondsey, the only son among eight children. Before World War II, he worked as an engineer and then during the war he worked as a tank driver. Afterwards, Sydney made tools for the British Syphon company. He enjoyed playing...
Sydney Neilson
Sydney ‘Mick’ Leslie Neilson (1932-2019) was born in Cleethorpes, one of eight children to John and Margaret Neilson. His father died when Mick was eight. Times were hard and he had to leave school early in order to help support the family, starting at the Scunthorpe Steelworks. Mick taught himself...
Sylvia Davies
Sylvia Davies (1959 – 2018) was born Sylvia Bergamo in Switzerland on 25 August, the youngest of four children. She moved to the UK as a young child and after leaving school, she worked in a shoe factory in Bridgend. After her marriage, she became a cook and then a...
Sylvia Dormer
Sylvia Evelyn Dormer (1928 – 2014) was born in Norwich to Violet and Albert Abbs. Sylvia was an only child until she was 10 years old, when her sister Myra was born. The Second World War disrupted her education and Sylvia left the Stuart School for Girls aged 14. She...
Sylvia Marguerite Roberts
Sylvia Marguerite Roberts (1934 – 2024) was born in Peterborough to Birdie and James Weekes, the eldest sister to James and Vic. Sylvia grew up in London after her parents returned there, when Sylvia was two years old. After leaving school at 15, Sylvia trained as a nurse and qualified...
Sylvia May Hutchins
Sylvia was born on 5th April 1924 in Portland, Dorset and grew up there then the family moved to north London where her father ran a haulage business. She met Bert Hutchins when her mother was childminding his daughter Silvie and in the mid 1950’s they moved to Benfleet where...
Sylvia Myson
Sylvia Joy Myson, ‘Sylvie’ (1934 – 2019) was born in Cambridge on the 7th July 1934. She had three brothers, whom she looked after when their father died, when Sylvie was eleven. She left Coleridge School to work as a seamstress. Sylvie married Terry in 1956. They lived in Cambridge...
Terence Dashwood
Terence James Dashwood (1937 – 2019) was born in the East End of London, the only child of Ivy and Jim. He was evacuated from Stratford to Bedfordshire, aged three. He went to Bedford Modern School. Terence did his National Service in the RAF. He started work at Goldington Power...
Thomas ‘Tom’ Frederick Hering
Thomas ‘Tom’ Frederick Hering (1935 – 2021) was born on 7th April 1935 in London to Frank and Kitty. He had two sisters, Anna and Norah. Tom was sent to boarding school from the age of four. Tom’s mother remarried in 1943 and had another son, Martin. In 1949 he...
Thomas Blake
Thomas Henry Blake (1931 – 2019) was born in Elham to Charles and Elizabeth. He was the middle child of five, the others being Bill, Ronald, Gladys and Pamela. His father died when he was still young. The family moved from Folkestone to Hampstead in London before the war started....
Thomas Brown Hunter
Thomas Brown Hunter was born on 9th September 1945 and was the oldest of five children. He remained close to his brother John all his life. He played football for his junior school and for Northumberland county at senior school. He left school and started a plastering apprenticeship but left...
Thomas Gondris
Thomas Gondris (1930-2019) Tom was born in Czechoslovakia, the only child of Eugen and Else. Tom was sent to England on the last of the Kindertransport trains. He was given a home by the Parsons Family, in Hampshire. Tom’s parents didn’t survive the war. He left school at 18 and...
Thomas O’Halloran
Thomas John O’ Halloran (1929 – 2019) was born in Newtown, Cardiff to Mary and Henry O’Halloran, one of ten children. Tom left school aged 13. He eventually found work as a builder’s mate. He spent two years in Yorkshire on National Service before returning to Cardiff to work in...
