Grandfather's diaries as an evacuee

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posted on 2024-06-05, 16:09 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

These are two separate diaries written in 1940 by my maternal grandfather, Peter Vail (1925-2006), while he was evacuated to Ashbourne, Derbyshire from his home in Leigh-on-sea, Essex.

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Two diaries from 1940

Person the story/items relate to

Peter Ernest Lindsay Vail

Person who shared the story/items

Sara Marsh

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Maternal grandfather

Type of submission

Shared online as part of the SOS: Save Our Stories campaign.

School

St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Record ID

103929 | SOS

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