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What I am wanting to do here is present excerpts from letters that my father sent to his mother during the war. Many are undated (egTuesday) and unaddressed (egStill Here) but the content provides the chronology, especially where it ties in with documented accounts of the activities he was involved in.
Ronnie Fayle was born in London in 1914. He had 2 sisters, and a brother who died in early childhood of the whooping cough. Their father, Frank, a Manxman, was killed in action in Palestine in 1917, a brave and most unwilling conscript in his mid-thirties.
Ronnie had a choral scholarship to college school in Oxford, went on to study economics at UCL, was a CP member during the rise of Moseley fascism in London, a teacher, a fine jazz pianist, and joined the Royal Marines in 1939 after war broke out. He met my mother, Andy, in Ceylon where she was a wartime VAD. They were married there at the end of the war and returned to UK.
The Letters...........

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