Introduction

The WW2 section is based on the the experiences of Paul & Gwen Rowntree and those of Joan and Tony Guise.

We are lucky to have 26 letters, titled Communiques from Paul Rowntree to his parents written during the first London blitz while he was a medical student at St. Bartholomews Hospital. During this period he worked nights and during air raids at a local first aid centre, near Liverpool Street Station where he met Gwen.

The story of 3 lives in WW2 is based on diaries of Joan Dibdin and letters written from England, Africa, India and Ceylon by Tony Guise while on active duty. Joan  was working at the first aid centre at Marylebone during the first blitz.

World War 1 is well represented with letters from the front by Lionel Dibdin and his brothers and brother in law, Stanley Haycraft  and also from the diaries of Colin Rowntree who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit and as a Royal Engineer with the War Graves Registration. Regarding the First World War we have first hand documentation regarding the experience of Lawrence Rowntree in the Friends Ambulance Unit and the mental cost of the war to Reginald Dibdin.
Comment should be made of the documents and articles regarding Walthamstow in WW2 from Elsie Marshall who was living in that area of North London with her father .

Links are included to other relevant parts of the website.
Some of the items such as whole newspapers are referred to as primary sources but are not displayed on the website.

Reginald Aglio WW1 Room

Lionel Aglio Dibdin WW1 Room

Stanley Muirhead Haycraft WW1 Photo Room

Peter Haycraft Dibdin's WW2 Items

Joan Dibdin in WW2 Room 

Anthony Benoit in WW2 Room

Gwen Rowntree WW2 Room  

Colin Rowntree WW1 Room 

Lawrence Rowntree WW1 Room