Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

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OBITUARIES
John volunteered when war broke out and served with the 1st Airborne
Division from its formation in 1939 until 1946. He served in Africa, Italy,
France, Holland, Norway and Germany. After the war he returned to Australia
and worked in the motor body industry before moving into farming. He
eventually became a citrus grower. John married his wife Dorothy in 1948.
Regrettably his date of death is unknown.
TIMOTHY JAMES DASHWOOD (1967), nephew of D McAnally (1935),
was born in his parents’ estancia in the Argentine in 1947, where he learned
to speak Spanish in the kitchen, and English to his family. He learned to ride
sitting in a sheepskin saddle, and enjoyed bathing with the whole family in
the irrigation tank. Very early in life he showed an intense capacity for
concentration, whether he was playing with his trains or constructing
something from Meccano. He learned to read, write and do sums long before
he had any formal education.
The family returned to England in 1953, when Timothy was six, because of
political unrest in Argentina. They spent the summer with their McAnally
grandparents in Southwold, attending a small school and joining in the
Coronation festivities. That autumn, they moved to Hartshall Farm in West
Suffolk, where Tim enjoyed driving tractors at harvest time, and by the age of
10 he could competently reverse a tractor with a trailer.
After prep school in Norfolk, where Tim excelled and was good at games,
he went on to Marlborough. He learned to play the piano and to be a radio
“ham”, and enjoyed a school trip to Russia when he was learning the
language. From Marlborough, he came to King’s as a Scholar. Unfortunately,
he soon became ill with bipolar disorder and had to leave because of ill
health; this marked the beginning of many spells in hospital. Tim worked
hard to cope with his illness, and at the age of 24 was ready to make another
attempt on completing his degree, this time at Trinity College, Oxford. He
had three happy years at Oxford, helping to train the rugger team and
attending services in the College Chapel. The stress of preparing for final
exams, however, was too much for him and he again fell ill, which meant
that he left Oxford with an assessed degree.