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Thomasina, the Youngest of 13.

by Angela Ng

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Angela Ng
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Thomasina Iris Clark nee Stephenson
Location of story:听
Washington, Tyne and Wear
Background to story:听
Civilian
Article ID:听
A4453049
Contributed on:听
14 July 2005

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I was born in 1943, the youngest of 13 in "the terraces", Washington.
My Dad was a miner and in the Home Guard.My eldest brother was on active service in Burma. Before he left he charged his best friend Tom Fisher who was 16, with the job of looking after my Mother, who was expecting me and helping to light the fires.
Tom was also in the Home Guard even though he was so young.
While he was on duty he was killed with a discharge from a gun.
When I was born my family thought I would be a boy. Boy or girl my family wanted to call me after the lovely lad, with a a face like an angel who had died so young. Thats how I came to get my unusual name of Thomasina. I'm proud to be named after Tom Fisher.

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