The Second World War brought about many social changes – both positive and negative. Without delving into academic ‘gobbledygook’, I
My father worked in Edinburgh’s North British Rubber Company 80 in 1947-1948, when it was probably the Scottish capital’s largest factory.
I had imagined that I might find an answer to the ‘ship’s furniture’ in connection with my father’s burnt hand
This post focuses on British Colonialism and what a colonial government usually needed. A colonial government needed military personnel, police,
My mother ‘alone’ It seems my father was in Rangoon for about 2 years in naval and civil capacities. Altogether,
I continue trying to decode the love letters from my father to my mother during his time in Burma. Page
The letters between my mother and father during the war are far from complete. My father hasn’t kept all the
My father seemed to have worked in Burma back in 1945. However, he was demobbed from the Royal Navy on