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Storyteller Isobel, Christina Bailey's eldest daughter |
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Isobel attending Armistice Day in Birmingham |
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Christina Bailey in the early 1900s |
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Portrait of Christina Bailey in the early 1900s |
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Donald, Percy Lade's son, a flying officer in the RAAF during WWII |
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Australian newspaper article on David Lade, 1991 |
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Donald Lade's gravestone, discovered in Germany 1999 |
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Wartime Liaison
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Christina Bailey met Percy Lade during the 1914-18 War. She was from Edinburgh and he was an Australian soldier on leave. It didn't work out for them then, but their short liaison sparked an 80 year connection between their two families that spanned two continents and two world wars... |
