Barbara Rawlins (Mellersh)

Barbara's occupations:- Sep 1938: Civil Service – Tithe Redemption Commission; during WW2 (1940 - 1945): Nurse VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) (Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm at HMS Nuthatch, Anthorn, Solway Firth); 1945 onwards: Civil Servant (later, at Somerset House, London, meeting husband). Barbara lived:- At birth (March 1921): 17 Edenbridge Road, Bush Hill Park, Edmonton, Middlesex; From about age 1 (about 1922) until marriage (1962): 55 Abbey Road, Enfield, Middlesex (with parents; and in earlier years with brother); Upon marriage (October 1962): 243 Crescent Drive, Petts Wood, Kent (husband’s house); From 1968 (husband’s early retirement) until death (December 1987): “Thorpe Cloud,” St Michael’s Road, Minehead, Somerset, TA24 5JW. Other information about Barbara:- In 1933 at North Middlesex School Barbara in Form Lower iii was awarded for Divinity, Arithmetic, Geography, Holiday Work a hardback book “Poems of To-Day,” published 1931, by Headmistress [?] Wilmot Gascoigne MA. Had rheumatoid arthritis from age 27; Activities: Dress-making, horse riding, foreign holidays, sailing on the Broads, skiing in Austria, walking in Norway, office dances, skating, swimming (till the rheumatoid arthritis stopped them).Obituary in West Somerset Free Press on Friday 15 January 1988.