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List of Personnel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Family<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jess<\/td>\nhis wife and Barry’s mother, married in 1938<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barry<\/td>\nson, aged 11 weeks when the diary opens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poppet<\/td>\nBarry!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dorothy<\/td>\neldest sister<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marjorie<\/td>\nsister<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tod or Toddy<\/td>\nbrother<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kath, (Kathleen)<\/td>\nyoungest sister<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fred<\/td>\nhusband of Marjorie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Olive<\/td>\nwife of Toddy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bob<\/td>\nfirst husband of Kath, killed in action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John, Johnny<\/td>\nJess’s young brother<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Haydn Dewey<\/td>\nHaydn Dewey was Trevor’s cousin, on his father’s side, and a Church of England vicar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aunt Gert (Gertrude)<\/td>\nMother of Haydn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ernest Bland and Phyllis Lambert (Phyl)<\/td>\nErnest was a L\/Cpl with the 7th Battalion, The Kings own Royal Regiment, India Command. Ernest was engaged (later married) to Phyllis Lambert, Jess’s cousin on her mother’s side.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Friends and colleagues<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garsden<\/td>\nPre and post-war work colleague from Edison and Swan Electric Company (Ediswan), Trevor’s boss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stan and Dora Smith<\/td>\nClose and life-long friends. They shared a very deep love of classical music with Jess and Trevor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornelese family<\/td>\nDutch family from Eindhoven. Befriended Trevor from 8th October 1944, when they first provided hospitality for Trevor and other troops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wilfrid (Wilf) Colclough<\/td>\nA close friend of Trevor’s, who wrote to him frequently. They shared an active interest in politics, and had similar opinions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Army<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lt Francis<\/td>\n15 troop leader<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tpr. Johnny (\u201cTiger\u201d) Boland<\/td>\nDriver in Trevor’s crew until wounded along with Bill Geary at Crèvecoeur on 20th August 1944. Subsequently transferred to TDU.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cpl Bill Geary<\/td>\nWireless operator and loader in Trevor’s crew from 9th July 1944 until wounded along with Johnny Boland at Crèvecoeur on 20th August 1944.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trp. Dave Slade<\/td>\nCo-driver in Trevor’s crew.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
L\/cpl Ted Pestell<\/td>\nGunner in Trevor’s crew until transferred to Mr Francis’ tank in November 1944.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tpr. Derek Pedder<\/td>\nWireless operator and co-driver in Trevor’s crew<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tpr. Eric Ward<\/td>\nDriver in Trevor’s crew, replaced Boland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crick<\/td>\nGunner in Trevor’s crew, replaced Pestell from end of November 1944.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sgt Dicky Hall<\/td>\nFellow C Squadron tank commander and friend<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jimmy and Jess Aldcroft<\/td>\nFriend of Trevor’s in B Squadron, injured on 10th July 1944. Jimmy’s wife became a wartime friend of Trevor’s wife.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

List of Personnel Family Jess his wife and Barry’s mother, married in 1938 Barry son, aged 11 weeks when the diary opens Poppet Barry! Dorothy eldest sister Marjorie sister Tod or Toddy brother Kath, (Kathleen) youngest sister Fred husband of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trevorgreenwood.co.uk\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}