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Hailey, Charles
Charles Hailey Born in 1918, near Richmond in London, in 1939, just shy of his 21st birthday, he was called up for war with the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was quickly promoted to Lance Corporal and […]
Month: May 2019
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Gurney, Ronald
Ronald Gurney Ronald Wilfred (or Wilfrid) Gurney was born in 1898 in Cheltenham. He became a theoretical physicist as a pupil of William Lawrence Bragg at the Victoria University of Manchester during the 1920s, where […]
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Gunson, Madge
Madge Gunson was an ardent trade unionist, born in 1898. When she was 11 years’ old, her parents joined the British Socialist Party and Madge began attending the North West Ham Socialist Sunday School, “for […]
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Dubowski, Ben
Ben Dubowski During the First World War, Ben Dubowski was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. He then devoted himself to organising clothing workers in East London, and for a number of years was secretary of […]
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Chambers Leslie
Leslie Chambers Known as `Tec’ Chambers, he was a very well-known Communist Party member in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, for a decade from the mid-1930s. He lived, long term, in Banks Road, from where he had helped […]