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Note: Educated at a Convent on the Isle of Wight,she became pregnant when going out with John Thomson.Hos Mother was against them marrying as John was a Medical Student with no money of his own.His Parents > took him away on a World trip and he was still away when his son,Peter,was born.A couple of months later he returned and married Audrey.16 months later,another son,Ian,was born.Audrey then says that J>
ohn started to drink heavily and go out with other women and she obtained a divorce taking the children to live with her parents.There is no record of this divorce.Prior to the War Audrey worked in va>
rious jobs and apparently never obtained any money from her husband.in 1939,she joined the ATS as a driver but was invalided out when she became seriously ill and had a kidney removed.In the early 195>
0s,she commenced living with Jim Cooper-Mitchell and they managed several large hotels until retiring in 1976 to a cottge in Fittleworth,West Sussex.They never married
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