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Gibbon Lewis Grassic (Leslie Mitchell)

September 19, 2008 admin 0

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Leslie Mitchell) Born James Leslie Mitchell in 1901 at Auchterless, Aberdeenshire. His father was an impoverished crofter, Danes Mitchell, and his mother, Lellias Grassic Gibbon. The young Mitchell boy was educated at […]

Cartwright Leslie

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Leslie Cartwright Born around 1905, Cartwright was born and bred, lived and worked in Blackpool. He attended school locally, at Tyldesley, became an engineering worker and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He served in the […]