Period 1940 -1945
Update 30th of november, 2003
 

May 1940 , the German invade north of France. On may 21th , the " EMMA " a trawler leaves Boulogne sur mer on board with other French passengers my mother. She gives me birth on the open sea of Antifer Cap near Le Havre (a seaport in France).
Both of us are put to hospital during a few days in the military hospital of Cherbourg then we rejoin the other passengers who have disembarked to Loctudy in Brittany in France). The refugees will take place on board again and arrive in Paington in Devon (Great Britain) and we will stay five years in England waiting for the end of the war. My father mobilised in France during the evacuation , informed of my birth , he arrived in Cherbourg as we left the hospital. I will know my father at the end of the hostilities in 1945 when we came in France.
 

PHOTO 1940 maman 2 soeurs & moi

 

With my mother and my two sisters

 

PHOTO Classe de mes marraines de guerre Tyler Pat Symons Barbara Seager Daphne Short Joan Wickes Joan Pattle Margaret Thompson Pamela Whitehead Joyce Turrell Dorothy Sim Beryl Tyndale Elisabeth Walker Eilleen Taylor Barbara Spier Brenda Woolsey Margery Smith Nancy Sears Thelma Wakeford Anne Wykes Margaret Woodharnns Vivian Walker Audrey Turner Doris Bristow Jean Spickett Josephine Weyland Pamela I am the youngest refugee disembarking in England. The British are touched by my destiny , the solidarity is put in place.
The young girls of form II C
of SHEPHERDS LANE DATFORD college (Kent)
will be my war godmothers.
The French teacher was Miss Williams.
These teenagers will have for their young godson many ways of sympathy.
On this picture :
Turrell Dorothy , Symons Barbara, Spier Brenda,
Seager Daphne, Woolsey Margery , Thompson Pamela,
Smith Nancy , Short Joan, Sears Thelma , Wickes Joan,
Weyland Pamela , Walker Eilleen, Wakeford Anne,
Spickett Josephine, Wykes Margaret , Pattle Margaret,
Bristow Jean , Whitehead Joyce, Turner Doris ,
Taylor Barbara, Walker Audrey , Tyndale Elisabeth, Woodharnns Vivian , Sim Beryl

To click the faces of July, 1941 to identify these teenagers.
On this picture taken in July 1941 there are some of them.  
What have they become ?

Bailey Aunice , Barbara Taylor , Bell Pamela , Blake Audrey,
Blighton Joyce ,Braham Connie , Bray Iris , Bristow Jean ,
Capon Kathleen , Chivrall Estella , Durrant Pamela,
Ford Stella , Goldstraw Grace, Kettly Dorren ,
Mutch Jean ,Pottle Margaret ,Robinson Olive , Russell Jean ,
Sears Thelma , Short Joan, Sim Beryl , Smith Nancy ,
Smith Thelma ,Spickett Josephine, Spier Branda ,
Symons Barbara , Thompson Pamela , Turner Doris ,
Turrel Dorothy , Tyler Pat, Tyndale Elizabeth ,
Wakeford Anne , Walker Eilleen , Weyland Pamela ,
Whitehead Marion , Wickes Joan , Woodhams Vivian ,
Woolsey Margaret , Wykes Margaret

In 2004 , two them of enter were found.
One of them met me. Some photos of reunion soon if the person gives me license of it.
To click the faces of July, 1942 to identify these teenagers.

They are about seventies years old today ...

 
The British who are on internet , could they them and could inform me ?
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Wakeford Anne Chivrall Estella Jean Briston Pamela Weyland Doris Turner Thelma Smith Barbara Symons Jean Mutch Stella Ford Jean Russell Barbara Taylor Pamela Durrant Olive Robinson Grace Goldstraw Johan Short Josephine Spickett Connie Braham Kathleen Capon Pat Tyler Thelma Sears Nancy Smith Joyce Blighton Audrey Blake Iris Bray Eunice Bailey Doreen Kettly Marion Whitehead Pamela Bell