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Article: A Family At War; A quirk of fate led to the discovery of letters telling of how a God-fearingMerseyside family faced death, tragedy and love as the old world died. Today,for the first time, the Daily Post publishes extracts from these revealing documents. David Charters reports.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2004
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Byline: David Charters
THE father was a man of business, who had placed his trust in God and the ledger book in about equal measure,and even when his young sons were taken from him to fight in World War I, his faith never faltered.
Today, we can learn a little of this man, Thomas Pemberton, who tried so hard to live in the way that he understood, as all the old certainties crumbled around him.
But it was all-important to maintain the stiff-collared manners of the respectable middle-classes, whose money came from prudent management, prayers and hard work, rather than the gambles favoured by families of a more flamboyant nature.
So,as ...