August 2016
War Service
Lest we Forget. When we were children our pacifist mother disapproved of the “glorification of war”, characterised, in…
Story Thread · 5 Stories
War, Faith and Family Aftermath
War’s long reach appears in service records, family memory, faith, separation and loss. These Stories follow its effects across generations, ending with letters that keep a family voice close.
Read in the order chosen by the family. Each Story leads to the next.
The sequence
June 2026
Our Family in Wartime
We are Baby Boomers, the generation conceived and born, as normal life picked up again, after the end…
June 2016
“Cut out of the Will”
Growing up we had heard many times how our father had been ‘cut out of the will’ by…
February 2017
A Great Sorrow
Our mother's sister, Marge, who had been close to marrying an American Serviceman during the war, had had…
October 2015
Twelfth Birthday Letters to Alice
Letter writing is all but dead. When we were cleaning out our mother’s flat, after she had died,…