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WRITING LIVES DURING LOCKDOWN

I have just received the June issue of the magazine where Sarah Williams asks readers in her ‘Welcome’ letter if they have done any lockdown projects.

My lockdown project has been to write my father’s biography. He never threw anything away, and fortunately his parents kept all of the letters that he wrote home during the Second World War. He always told us that he was in RAF Intelligence, and we thought it was his Yorkshire tongue-in-cheek humour, although we knew that he had learnt Japanese. Further research has put him in 1944/45 at HMS Anderson, the Bletchley Park outpost in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He met and married my mum – who was a Wren – out there. He returned to pick up his theology degree in London, then became a clergyman.

I have written his story to span from a bit before his birth in 1913 to his death in 2008. There are also