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5 Aronson, op. cit., p. 24.
6 Ibid., p. 25.
7 Felicity Goodall, ‘Life during the blackout’, Guardian, 1 Nov 2009.
8 Ibid.
9 Lord Killearn, The Killearn Diaries, 1934-1946: the Diplomatic and Personal Record of Lord Killearn (Sir Miles Lampson), High Commissioner and Ambassador, Egypt, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, p. 107.
10 The Times, 2 September 1939.
11 The Times, 5 September 1939.
12 Denis Judd, King George VI, London: Michael Joseph, 1982, p. 39
13 Ibid., 1982, p. 176.
14 Sarah Bradford, George VI, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, p. 403.
15 Ibid., p. 403.
16 William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography, London: Macmillan, 2009, p. 498.
17 Bernard Gray, ‘The King was with His Troops’, Daily Mirror, 5 December 1939.
18 Ibid.
19 Aronson, op. cit., p. 15.
20 John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, His Life and Reign, London: Macmillan, 1958, p. 429.
21 Wood, op. cit., p. 116.
22 ‘How 30 men with cutlasses and grappling irons seized Altmark’, Sunday Express, 18 February 1940.
23 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 436.
24 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 503.
25 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 433.
26 A.J.P. Taylor, (ed.), W.P. Crozier, Off the Record: Political Interviews, 1933-43, London: Hutchinson, 1973.
27 Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes James, ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967, p. 229.
28 Ibid., p. 230.
29 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 437.
30 Daily Mirror, 27 October 1939.
31 Daily Mirror, 15 March, 1940.
32 Judd, op. cit., p. 166.
33 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 420.
34 Ibid., p. 436.
35 Bradford, op. cit., p. 40.
36 Meryle Secrest, Kenneth Clark, A Biography, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984, p. 118.
37 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, entry for 10 December 1936.
38 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The Later Years 1945-62, Volume III of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1968, entry for 21 March 1949.
39 Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII: The Official Biography, London: Collins, 1990, p. 404.
40 Ibid., p. 404.
41 Ibid., p. 404.
42 R.J. Minney, The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha, London: Collins, 1960, p. 237-8.
43 Martin Gilbert, The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940, London: Heinemann, 1993, p. 369.
44 Frazier Hunt, “‘Come on Hitler!” Dares Ironside’, Daily Express, 5 April 1940.
45 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 439-40.
46 Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, 1991, London: Heinemann, p. 642.
47 George VI’s War Diary, Volume II, entry for 11 May 1940.
48 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 537.
49 Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p. 45.
50 Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939-55, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, entry for 7 August 1940.
51 Philip Ziegler, London at War, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, p. 81.
52 Wood, op. cit., p. 103.
53 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 449.
54 ‘The King Masters Speech Defect’, Sunday Express, 26 May 1940.
55 Davidson papers, box 275, quoted in Andrew Roberts, op. cit., p. 41.
56 Headlam diary, entry for 24 May 1940, p. 111, quoted in Andrew Roberts, op. cit., p. 41.
57 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 454.
58 George VI’s War Diary, Volume II, entry for 26-28 May 1940, quoted in Deborah Cadbury, Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War, London: Bloomsbury, 2015, p. 149.
59 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, p. 186.
60 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 457.
61 Wood, op. cit., p. 147.
62 Elizabeth Longford, The Queen Mother, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981, p. 80.
63 ‘The King’s Shelter’, Sunday Express, 15 September 1940.
64 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 464.
65 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, p. 188.
66 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 514.
67 Ibid., p. 513.
68 Brian Green, Dulwich: The Home Front, 1939-1945, pamphlet published by the Dulwich Society, 1995.
69 http://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/74-winter-2011/681dads-army
70 ‘Home Guards on Parade’, The Times, 12 August 1940.
71 Betty Wilson, ‘Australia has a social centre in London’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 1940.
72 Noble Frankland, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, p. 185.
73 Aronson, op. cit., p. 34.
74 Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 422.
75 Sir John Colville, op. cit., entry for 3 July 1940.
76 Bradford, op. cit., p. 577.
77 Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 427.
78 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 520.
79 Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939-41, London: Minerva, 1989, p. 700.
80 Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 428.
81 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 465.
82 Peter Stansky, The First Day of the Blitz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 30.
83 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, p. 111.
84 Ziegler, London at War, p. 113.
85 Stansky, op. cit., p. 1.
86 Ibid., p. 69.
87 Ibid., p. 28.
88 Ziegler, London at War, p. 115.
89 Bradford, op. cit., p. 430.
90 Norman Hartnell, Silver and Gold, London: Evans Brothers, 1955, p. 102.
91 Longford, op. cit., 1981, p. 86.
92 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 522.
93 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 468.
94 Ibid., p. 469.
95 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 524.
96 ‘The East Enders’ Angel’, Evening Standard, 2 April 2002.
97 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 523.
98 ‘In an Air Raid’, Adelaide Chronicle, 16 January 1941.
99 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, p. 114.
100 Philip Ziegler, Crown and People, London: Collins, 1978, p. 72.
101 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 469.
102 Ibid., p. 469.
103 Jeffery Richards and D. Sheridan, Mass-Observation at the Movies, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, p. 213.
104 Ibid., p. 402.
105 Ziegler, Crown and People, p. 78.
106 Dorothy Laird, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Her Support to the Throne During Four Reigns, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1966, p. 293.
107 ‘In an Air Raid’, Adelaide Chronicle, 16 January 1941.
108 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 165.
109 Elizabeth Grice, ‘Nicholas Mosley: “The King’s Speech therapist gave me hope, too”, Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2011.
110 William Sansom, Westminster in War, London: Faber & Faber, 1947, p. 92.
111 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 541.
112 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 533.
113 Ibid., p. 535.
114 Ibid., p. 537.
115 Daily Express, 9 May 1942.
116 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 548.
117 Ibid., p. 549.
118 Ibid., p. 543.
119 Ibid., p. 553.
121 Amanda Cable, ‘We saw the Nazi pilot wave at us – then he bombed our school: Survivors remember the day the Luftwaffe massacred 38 pupils at a London school’, Daily Mail, 4 September 2009.
122 ‘Shot down by RAF’, The Times, 21 January 1943.
123 ‘Propaganda Bombing’, The Times, 21 January 1943.
124 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 564.
125 Ibid., p. 564.
126 Ibid., p. 567.
127 Ibid., p. 568.
128 Bradford, op. cit., p. 431.
129 Hugo Vickers, Vivien Leigh: A Biography, London: Penguin, 1988, p. 156.
130 Michael Carver, Out of Step: Memoirs of a Field Marshal, London: Hutchinson, 1989, p. 166.
131 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 578.
132 Harold Macmillan, War Diaries: The Mediterranean, 1943-45, London: Macmillan, 1984, p. 120.
133 Ed. Duff Hart-Davis, King’s Counsellor, Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, p. 139.
134 Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 140.
135 ‘Court Circular’, The Times, 17 July 1943.
136 Lionel Logue papers, November 30, 1943.
137 Lionel Logue papers, December 29, 1943.
138 George VI’s War Diary, Volume VIII, entry for 21 December 1943.
139 Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses, London: Odhams, 1950, p. 59.
140 Ibid., p. 85.
141 Ibid., p. 86.
142 Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 189.
143 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 589.
144 Ibid., p. 589.
145 Don Whitehead, ‘So Easy, So Simple’, Sunday Express, 23 January 1944.
146 ‘Beached: German losses staggering’, Daily Express, 19 February 1944.
147 Basil Gingell, ‘Hitler’s order: Take it’, Sunday Express, 20 February 1944.
148 ‘Scots Guard in the Beach-Head: Valour against odds’, The Times, 29 March 1944.
149 ‘The Victory of Rome’, New York Times, 6 June 1944.
150 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 599.
151 Bradford, op. cit., p. 474.
152 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 600.
153 Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 224.
154 Ibid., p. 225.
155 Ibid., p. 227.
156 Aronson, op. cit., p. 158.
157 Ibid., p. 158.
158 King’s diary, 6 June 1944.
159 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 608.
160 Ibid., p. 608.
161 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 608.
162 Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 234.
163 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 609.
164 Ibid., p. 610.
165 Arthur L. Woolf, ‘The Battle of South London’, http://www.camberwell-boroughcouncil.co.uk/battle-south-london.
166 Aronson, op. cit., p. 170.
167 John Bettinson, letter to authors.
168 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 612.
169 Bradford, op. cit., p. 480.
170 Nigel Hamilton, Monty, The Making of a General, 1887-1942, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981, p. 116.
171 Patrick Howarth, George VI, London: Hutchinson, 1987, p. 168.
172 Shawcross, op. cit., p. 590.
173 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 625.
174 Ibid., p. 624.
175 Hart-Davis, op. cit., p. 321.
176 Ed. Nigel Nicolson, Sir Harold Nicolson, The War Years 1939-45, Volume II of Diaries and Letters, London: Collins, 1966, p. 462.
177 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 627.
178 Aronson, op. cit., p. 212.
179 Judd, op. cit., p. 217.
180 Wheeler-Bennett, op. cit., p. 635.
181 Ibid., p. 636.
182 Ibid., p. 636.
183 Channon, op. cit., p. 501.
184 Judd, op. cit., p. 219.
185 John Lehmann, I Am My Brother, London: Longmans, 1960, pp. 296-7.
186 ‘Potato Rationing’, Spectator, 14 November, 1947.
187 Christopher Wilson, ‘The night a bogus medium conned the Queen into trying to contact her beloved father’, Daily Mail, 24 Oct, 2014.
188 William F. Neech, Death Is Her Life, London: Psychic Book Club, 1957, quoted in Paranormal Review, 12 December 2010.
189 Interview with authors, June 2010.
190 Daily Express, 7 February 1952.
191 R.T. Oerton, ‘Remembering Lionel Logue’, Speaking Out, spring 2011, pp. 8-9.
192 The Times, 13 April 1953.
193 The Times, 17 April 1953.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my lovely wife Ruth although I would have appreciated a bit more support with the first one. Also our children Amy, Hannah and Laurie, for letting this project take over our home, and my siblings Sarah, Patrick and Nickie for their help and reminiscences. Thanks also to my Aunt Anne and her daughter Victoria Logue.
Thanks also to the London Metropolitan Archives, the British Library, the National Archives, the Imperial War Museum, Southwark Library, Lewisham Library, Dulwich College Library and the University of London. Thanks to the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Army Service Corps, Army Personnel Centre and the Scots Guards for my father’s and uncle’s military service histories. And finally thanks to the local historians Steve Grindlay, Brian Green, Ian McInnes and Bernard Nurse who helped add so much detail to what life was like in south London during the war.
Mark Logue,
London, July 2018
Index
Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.
Abbeville, France, 75
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ix
Achilles, HMS, 44
Adeane, Michael, 248–9
Adelaide Advertiser, 136
Adelaide, South Australia, 10, 111, 121, 136, 137, 256
Admiral Graf Spee, 44, 54
Admiral of the Fleet, 42, 124
Afrika Korps, 145, 152–4
Agate Street Infants School, Canning Town, 109–10
air raid precautions (ARP), 24, 25, 32, 111, 123
air raid shelters, 15, 17, 26, 37, 89–91, 106, 109–10, 124–5, 132
Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, 99
Ajax, HMS, 44
el-Alamein, Egypt, 145, 152–4, 155, 165
Albert Hall, Kensington, 34
Alexander, Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, 169, 210
Alexander, Ulick, 133, 205
Algeria, 154, 166, 169
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 45, 46, 148
Allan, Mea, 23
Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift, 18
Altmark, 54–5
Amery, Leo, 70
Anderson, John, 26
Anderson shelters, 26, 106
Andrews Liver Salts, 187
animals, 28, 157, 165
Ansell, James, 4
anti-Semitism, 58
Antibes, 65
Anzio landings (1944), 184–91
apartheid, 245
Appleton House, Sandringham, 88, 128
Archer, C.B., 177–8
Arctic convoys, 180
Ardennes, 75
Arethusa, HMS, 203
Arezzo, Italy, 211
Argentina, 44
Armistice Day, 41
Arsenal FC, 34
arteriosclerosis, 245–6
Astor, Michael, 229–30
Athenia, SS, 31–2
Athlone, Earl of, see Cambridge, Alexander
Atkinson-Morley, Wimbledon, 156
atomic bomb, 228, 232
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, 239
Attlee, Clement, 70, 73, 228–9, 232–3, 244, 251
Auchinleck, Claude, 152, 153
Augusta, USS, 227
Aurora, HMS, 170
Austin Motor
Company, 137
Australia, vii, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 35, 50, 76, 139, 146, 165, 235–6
anti-Australian sentiment, x
Australia House, 96, 111, 156, 231
Boomerang Club, 156, 231
evacuees, 127
Flying Jordans, 213
George VI’s tour cancelled (1948), 246, 247
Governorship, 40
Grand Prix, 137
On My Selection, 150–52, 231
press, 136, 150
Prince Alfred College, 256
Second Imperial Force, 53, 96–7, 111
Women’s Voluntary Service Committee, 37
Auxiliary Territorial Service, 221
Ayrshire, Scotland, 166
Baby Blitz (1944),194, 205
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 151
Badoglio, Pietro, 180
Baedeker Raids (1942), 144–5
Bahamas, 99–101, 149, 229
Bailey, Lilian, 240–42
Baldwin, Stanley, 44
Balkans, 197
Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, 9, 27, 148–9, 175, 176–7, 213
Bank of England, 233
Bank Station, London, 106
Barcelona, Spain, 99
Bargoed, Wales, 141
Barnwell Manor, Northamptonshire, 97
barrage balloons, 19–20, 26, 33, 121
Basildon Bond, xi
Bataan, Philippines, 144
Bath, Somerset, 144, 179
Battle of Anzio (1944), 184–91
Battle of Berlin (1945), 222
Battle of Bir Hachim (1942), 145
Battle of Britain (1940–41), 101–3, 104–29
Battle of Dunkirk (1940), 82–7, 92
Battle of El Alamein (1942)
First, 152, 153
Second, 153–4
Battle of Jutland (1916), 39
Battle of Stalingrad (1942–3), 155
Battle of the River Plate (1939), 44
Battle of Waterloo (1815), 49
Battle of Ypres, First (1914), 240
Beaverbrook, Lord, see Aitken, William Maxwell
Beechgrove House, Sydenham
1932 Logues move in, 18
1939 blackout regulations introduced, 23–5; outbreak of war, 17–20, 30–31, 32, 35, 36; Christmas, 49–50
1940 big freeze, 51–4; Logues fined for chopping down tree, 55; garden turned over for vegetable growing, 56; basement let out to tenants, 56; Laurie leaves for war, 87; German bombing, 121–2, 132
1941 Logues request suspension of rent payments, 132–3
1942 Logues struggle with maintenance, 147; slaughter of animals, 157
1943 Antony comes to visit, 164–5
1944 V-1 attacks, 206–7
1947 sold by Logue to Community of St John the Divine, 237