Margaret Mary Pamela Flach

b. 5 May 1921 d. 13 Oct 1950

'Peggy'

Only daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth Flach, born at Highgate on the 5th May,1921. Educated at Manor House Convent, Finchley, followed by Secretarial training at Pitman's College.

In her teens she attended a Red Cross training course, and did voluntary work helping out at Finchley Memoria1 Hospital. Her secretarial qualifications got her a job with Messrs. Rowntree & Co Ltd in their London Sales Office, one of the perks being she could purchase chocolate mis-shapes and broken chocolate at very cheap prices which the family appreciated.

During World War 2 she was called up to serve in the A.T.S with the rank of private and on being assessed she was posted to Northampton as a Shorthand Typist.

In 1949 whilst enjoying a promenade concert at The Albert Hall, she found she was seeing double. The family doctor called in a consultant and it was found that she had a tumour on the brain. She was operated on at Hill End Hospital at St. Albans and this was followed by Radio Therapy with the loss of all of her hair. After many months she returned to work and later went on a holiday to France with her brother Tony, visiting Chateaux of the Loire, Bourges, Nevers and Annecy. In 1950 the tumour flared up and with no further operation possible she passed away peacefully in Barnet Hospital on 13th October 1950. May she rest in peace.

Peggy

Peggy with brothers Ronnie,Tony, John and Peter in 1935