The late Doreen Emily (née) Hemus was born in 1921 to parents Frederick W. Hemus and Emily (née) Gammage who had married in that same year. She did not marry and she died in 2014.

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Interviewed and recorded on August 2nd 2010 by Yvonne Shaw and Terence Driscoll ; abridged in 2010 by Yvonne Shaw; fully transcribed by Christopher Hogger in 2020 ; words not transcribed (owing to indistinctness) are marked ***

Themes : The Common before and during the War ; Effingham characters