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Sheila Jenkinson's Diary

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posted on 2024-06-05, 19:59 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

Mum - Sheila Jenkinson (married name Winters) was born on January 1, 1927, and passed away in February 2020. Sheila grew up in Edinburgh. Her son, the contributor, says it's fun to read because "it's very Mum." These are domestic stories and record what was happening during the war. Sheila was very literary and became an English teacher after the war. Her future husband worked in London at SOAS teaching Japanese and worked in Intelligence in Japan after the war.

History

Item list and details

1. Pages from the wartime diary of Sheila Jenkinson, 1940 2. Pages from the wartime diary of Sheila Jenkinson, 1939

Person the story/items relate to

Sheila Jenkinson

Person who shared the story/items

Murray Winters

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Mother of contributor

Type of submission

Shared at Dumfries Museum, Dumfries and Galloway on 13 May 2023.

Record ID

93525 | DUM001