| Description | Dorrell
DOB: 11th November 1903
DOD: N/A
Born in Plaistow, London, in a small, terraced house with seven siblings.
Early memories include playing outside on hot paving stones, watching trains from a flat in Bethnal Green, and witnessing cows kept in railway arches.
Moved frequently due to family financial conditions: Plaistow, Bethnal Green, Kennington, Mile End, back to Plaistow.
Early school experience involved severe anxiety and running away screaming on the first day.
Attended Cave Road School until age 14.
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Married to Joan.
Childhood games with siblings, watching trains, playful pranks such as throwing water and coal on people.
Attempted suicide interrupted by his wife Joan.
Later, a near accident abroad revealed unconscious self-destructive behaviour.
The death of his brother Alfie, who died in the Royal Navy during WWI, at under 19 years old.
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Plaistow, Bethnal Green, Joan, suicide attempt, family, poverty, school, loneliness, depression, childhood memories. |