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Biographical Information: BERNARD WILLIAM NEAME, born 14th July 1919 at 45 Glenhouse Road, Eltham, London, England, after his father had been killed (c.1918), died 17th December 1998. School master and art teacher. As a child he and his mother lived with his aunt Janet Mabel Hayden Purvis (see 1.1.3.4.1.2.1. above). Served in World War II (1940-46), Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (R.N.V.R.) (1942-46), escorting convoys between Liverpool, England, and Gibraltar, and commanding landing craft for the invasions of Sicily, Italy, and Normandy, France, on D-Day. Based at Weymouth, Dorset, England, in 1944. Living (1947) at 22 Portarlington Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), England, (c.1952) at "Brooklands", Painswick, Gloucester, England, (1952) at 3 Oban Road, Talbot Woods, Bournemouth, (1966) at The Dairy House, Houghton, Hampshire, and (1995) in retirement at Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset. Married (12th October 1944 at St George's Parish Church, Fordington, near Dorchester, Dorset) Andrée Pemberton Taylor (born 7th August 1922 at Plymouth, Devon, England) of Colson House, Fordington, dressmaker and office clerk, living (2003) in Bournemouth, and (2009) in Southbourne, Dorset, daughter of Maurice Pemberton Taylor (died before 1990), bank official, and Jessie Gwendoline Stubbings (died before 1990), having two daughters:-