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Many of the next group of poems are based on the theme of love and loss.
Although June’s family were very hospitable and
many young soldiers, airmen and sailors were entertained at the Loxwood family home in Sussex (which also encompassed the Nursing Home business now based at Birtley House) it is likely that the earlier poems are based on imaginary rather than real beaux.
June was however very precocious
and indeed engaged by the age of 18 before breaking off the engagement and marrying my father Dick who had come over with the Royal Canadian Air Force
and first visited Loxwood while helping set up
the nearby Dunsfold Airfield.
