In Memoriam
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regshoeI may have mentioned before that, after D. K. Broster's death in 1950, Gertrude Schlich placed an 'In Memoriam' notice in The Times on the anniversary every year until her own death in 1969. (IIRC it was ethelmay who first found this out—thank you!) I had come across a couple of these notices in my biographical researches, but only now decided to have a properly thorough look in The Times Digital Archive for all of them—and I found them, indeed there every year on 7 February (or the 8th, in years when the 7th fell on a Sunday) from 1951 to 1968.
From 1952 onwards the notices all have very similar wording; they're all minor variations on this:
But the very first one, from 7 February 1951, one year after Broster's death, is quite different.
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ethelmay who first found this out—thank you!) I had come across a couple of these notices in my biographical researches, but only now decided to have a properly thorough look in The Times Digital Archive for all of them—and I found them, indeed there every year on 7 February (or the 8th, in years when the 7th fell on a Sunday) from 1951 to 1968.From 1952 onwards the notices all have very similar wording; they're all minor variations on this:
BROSTER.—To the dear memory of DOROTHY KATHLEEN (D. K. Broster), who died on the 7th February, 1950.—G.S.
But the very first one, from 7 February 1951, one year after Broster's death, is quite different.
Here's what it says:
BROSTER.—To the dear memory of D.K.B., died Feb. 7, 1950. “Gone . . . where an enemy never entered, and from whence a friend never went away.”
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