Memories of the Hooper and Lee family (18)
Penny Lee the daughter of Justin and 'Eejay' Hooper recalls stories of her
parents and their family, and her husband Hugh's family, during World War 1.
'Eejay' (actual name Edith Dixson Hooper nee Jenkinson), was the sister of
Stanley Noel Jenkinson [whose exploits in glass production for the war effort
are included in this collection].
Eejay and her husband Justin Hooper were great friends of the Nicholsons and
others from the Bloomsbury Set. Their daughter, Penny Lee, has in her
collection an odd photograph of her mother (Eejay) chopping down trees -
"...doing forestry in Cowdray Park [Aberdeenshire] as war work. She was an
art student and also painted submarine depth gauges and the altimeter dials
[and other instrumentation] of aircraft with luminour [luminous paint],
possibly radioactive paint. (She licked her brushes, which later affected her
blood.) And she did designs for 'Dazzle' painting for camouflaging merchant
ships."
Penny Lee also explains that her grandfather Justin Hooper's father, Captain
Cuthbert W.R. Hooper, was for much of his life in the Indian Navy (Egypt
1882, and later in 1890's harbourmaster at Moulmein in Burma), also had the
two WW1 medals - "I don't know how he served then; he must have been getting
on in years by then."
Penny Lee's father-in-law was Brig. Stanlake Swinton Lee, missed the war in
Europe. He seems to have gone straight out to India after marrying in August
1914 and was there throughout, mainly in Kashmir. He served and was decorated
in the 3rd Afghan War in 1919.
Title |
Memories of the Hooper and Lee family (18)
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Author |
Lee, Penny
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Subject |
Hooper, Justin; Hooper, Eejay; Jenkinson, Stanley Noel; Bloomsbury Set; Hooper, Cuthbert W.R.; Lee, Stanlake Swinton
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Notes |
Extracts from "Things heard, seen and remembered" by Lt. Col. Justin Hooper are also included in this collection.
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Item date |
1914 - 1918
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Creation place |
Unknown
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Item source | |
Item medium | |
Content | |
Page number |
18
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Total number of pages |
18
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Cataloguer |
Alun Edwards
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Filename |
GWA_7089_Memories_of_the_Hooper_and_Lee_family.txt
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Alun Edwards (Powys Archives submissions day)
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Contributed on the behalf of |
Penny Lee
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Collection
Citation
“Memories of the Hooper and Lee family (18),” by Lee, Penny. The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/8003.
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