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Old 02-09-2011, 12:48   #23
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Re: Poet Alice Miller.

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
Incidentally she wrote a poem to be read at the funeral of my great aunt and uncle's son, Dr. Alfred Aspinall, who was killed in Aden in 1962, aged tweny seven.

My grandparents gave money to fund a prize in his memory, for the best student nurse in the district, which was won some time later by one Margaret Pilkington!

It's a small world.


DEATHS
Aspinall.-On July 17, 1961, as the' result of an accident on the Aden Peninsula, Alfred Aspinall, M.B., ChXB., Lieutenant, R.A.M.C., aged 27.
http://www.bmj.com/content/2/5251/593.full.pdf

I'll have a root about at home, and will try and scan what she wrote for this in 1961. (Not '62, as quoted.)
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