No Ordinary Life: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Man

by Ann Barron

Overview

This memoir of John Bernard Barron follows his long and varied life, which was defined by service to his country. From his early travels in the Middle East, and later in Canada, to the western front of World War One, followed by military and civilian service in Palestine, he was never far from the pulse of history. The momentous changes he lived through still resonate in the Middle East today. During World War Two, his organisational and financial acumen was vital in the shipping of supplies to a besieged Malta. In retirement he was requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury to join The Council for Foreign Relations as his advisor in Middle Eastern church affairs and as an archivist in Lambeth Palace library. He finally retired at the age of 88. ‘No Ordinary Life’ is an impressive and very readable account of a life that was far from ordinary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839522208
Publisher:	Silver Crow Books
Publication date:	11/18/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

With several poetry pamphlets and short stories for children to her name, Ann Barron has been researching and writing her grandfather’s memoir for several years. Walking in his footsteps she visited WW1 battlefields in Belgium and travelled to Canada and Palestine to connect with family and friends who knew him. Ann and her husband live in the small town of Frome in Somerset, renowned for its lovely medieval streets and the creative and quirky characters of its residents. She retired from her nursing career, which included a period in Malaya as an army nursing sister in the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, 20 years ago and feeling a need to exercise her brain launched into study for a degree in the Humanities with the Open University. She then studied with the Diocese of Bath and Wells to become a Lay Minister in her local church. Ann enjoys reading, writing poetry, travelling, lazing by the sea in Cornwall and spending time with her granddaughters.