Month: July 2014
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Mobilising for war
One hundred years ago, Halliday Sutherland witnessed Britain mobilising for war in Devon. On the morning of Sunday, 2nd August 1914, I walked from Bideford to the fishing-village of Appledore. My companion was a lady, and, as we entered the village, the postman was stopping at every door, and at every cottage he left a blue envelope.…
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Tuberculosis and eugenics
In the United Kingdom every year fifty thousand people die of consumption or tuberculosis of the lung; twenty thousand more from other forms of the disease; a hundred and fifty thousand are disabled, while there are at least five hundred thousand infected persons, of whom a tenth constitute the potential cases of the future. In the…
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Bombs
This picture shows Vincent Sutherland in Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church in Kensington, London. Four incendiary bombs destroyed the church on the night of 13 September 1940. Vincent was an air raid warden at that stage of the War, and later served in the Royal Air Force. Halliday Sutherland and his wife Muriel (or “Hector” as the family called her) lived…