Monthly Archive: September 2015

Mrs Pittard and the Commandos

Autumn-15-coverI’m very pleased to report that the current issue of Sark Life magazine contains my article “Mrs Pittard and the Commandos”.

Here is an excerpt:

They found no Germans.  Instead they found, as one commando later recalled, “an elderly woman in a nightgown, sleepy eyed and looking at them with astonishment.”  The woman was Mrs Frances Noel Pittard.  She was 40 years old.

“Is the house on fire?” she asked.  (She assumed the uniformed men with blackened faces were firemen.)

To read the full article, you’ll need to order a copy of the magazine — which is a gorgeous, full-colour quarterly well worth buying — from the website at Small Island Publishing.