John Box

[…] JB started at the Northern Polytechnic on Holloway Road, most students were sons of builders; the rumblings of war had started and JB had a distaste for what was happening in Germany; JB applied to join the army and eventually joined a tank regiment, moving through Europe and ending up in Germany a[…]

Nick Ardizzone

[…]fter the beginning of the war. My father was an artist, by the time of the outbreak of war, a very successful artist, but he had been a territorial before the war. And he was called up slightly before the outbreak in August 1939. So my mother was on her own and I was born in the house of an uncle of[…]
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