Diary entry: War declared. P[Peggy] & I went to see Anthony in camp. Diary notes: As Anthony had volunteered (for the Territorials) before war was declared he had already been called up.
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Diary date: September 2nd [1939]
Diary entry: We went to Sevenoaks morning. Diary notes: Coincidentally KPD later moved to Sevenoaks, and lived there for the last 40 years or so of her life. It seems strange that KPD visited Suffolk one day, and Sevenoaks (in Kent) the next.
Diary date: September 1st [1939]
Diary Entry: Hitler into Danzig. Peggy fetched me & I went to stay with her. Notes: Anthony (KPD’s brother) had married Peggy Dell, (02/03/10 – 10/02/1991), neé Tindall in September 1936. She was his first wife and mother of his two children, Grahame & Jennifer. They lived in Suffolk.
Katharine Pamela Dell (1910-2006)
Katharine Pamela Dell, always known as Pamela by family and friends, was born on 6th April 1910 in the village of Iping, near Midhurst in West Sussex. The fourth child, but first girl, born to Henry Lawrence Dell and Agnes Ellen (‘Nellie’) Dell, née Evershed. He was an artist, specialising in watercolour landscapes and portraits, …
My First Blog Post
This blog is designed to support a history project I am starting to mark two things – the 80th anniversary of the Second World War, and the life during the war of my Aunt, Pamela Dell, who kept a diary full of short, but I hope, interesting entries about her life and work on the …
Who am I?
This blog isn’t actually about me, but rather my Aunt Pamela who lived throughout the Second World War, and made her contribution to the war effort like millions of others. Aunt Pamela holding me c. 1958, along with her mother and younger sister (my mother) However I realise that some will be interested in who …
Diary Date: 8th July [1944]
Diary Entry: Round Sheringham. Another bathe. Diary notes: KPD quite often mentions sea bathing in her diaries – something she clearly enjoyed at this time.
Aunt Pamela's War 