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[Name] SMITH [Forenames] John Henry
[Career] Clerk with General Insurance before Military service
with Royal Sussex Regiment; France, North Africa, Italy (1939-46).
Teachers' Training College Brighton. Teacher in Various schools in
Sussex (1948-76) and with Christian Missionary Society in Tanzania (1976-85).
[Recreations, interests etc.] Soccer for Old Varndeanians.
Member of Southwick Cricket Club (1948-75).
St John's Ambulance Brigade (1948-) Parish Councillor, Chailey (1987-
) Married, first (while on convalescent leave) Joan Brown in
Brighton; one son, two daughters.
Second, 1975 Jean Andrews in Tanzania.
[Awards, Recognitions..]
mentioned in Dispatches Italy 1942; Teaching Diploma (1948).
[Likes to Remember] the encouragement he received from his
children when his first wife died 1975 and he decided to teach in Tanzania.
[Would Like to be Remembered]
for trying to be a good teacher.
[Information provided by]
John Smith, Chailey 1996 |