About the contributor

My father, Ron Taylor, worked on the development of radar from 1938/39 at Bawdsey Manor, Christchurch and Malvern, and at various other places where experiments and tests were taking place. He married my mother, Molly Davis, in 1941 in Christchurch, although she was then employed as a teacher in Ledbury, Herefordshire. As they spent much of the war time apart I have many letters written during those years which describe the frustrations of living then with a young family. My sister Ann was born in 1943 and I was born in 1945 in Hereford. We lived with my mother and her sister and our cousin, also born in 1945, in a bungalow in Porthcawl, whilst my father was in Malvern. I would like to publish extracts from these letters as a record of daily life in wartime.
I also have letters from my mother's brothers who were all in various services, one of whom, Ron Davis, was killed in North Africa in 1942 in a Parachute drop.
I would like to hear from anyone who knew my parents or my mother's brothers - John Dennis Davis and Alan Leighton Davis, both in the Navy, or Newton Davis.