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Donald Hebblethwaite
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Donald Hebblethwaite
Donald Hebblethwaite
Biography
Son of John Edward (Ted) and Dora, Donald Hebblethwaite was born at Todd Hill, High Bentham, North Yorkshire, in 1924. He attended High Bentham Primary School and Burton-in-Lonsdale Secondary School. After serving in the Pioneer Corps based at Eastbourne, he joined George Angus & Co, Bentham, manufacturers of fire fighting equipment, and retired after 45 years' continuous employment. He married Anna Morag in 1955 and has a son John, the website author, born in 1956. Donald died aged 82 at Anley Hall Nursing Home, Settle, on 18.01.2007.

Spouse Details
Anna Morag was born in 1925 in Ilawcze, a small village near Tarnopol in the Ukraine, at that time the under Polish occupation, and the reason why she has always described herself as "Polish". The family then moved to Segre, near Angers, France, for a short while before returning to Poland. Anna was visiting Warsaw as part of a school trip when the German invasion of Poland took place. She was forced to work on a farm near Uelzen, Germany, and later at a factory at Clausthal.

At the end of the War, Anna made her way back home to Poland, but was unable to contact her parents and family who were in hiding. She joined the ranks of displaced persons travelling from town to town, eventually arriving at Darmstadt Camp, Germany. From here she emigrated to England and came to work at the George Angus & Co factory, Bentham.

For further information, see Anna Hebblethwaite's page My Long Journey to Freedom.

Sibling Details
Donald had an elder sister Margaret, born in 1921, who married Herbert Wrathall in 1940. She died in 1994 leaving three sons (Frank, Colin and Kenneth) and a daughter, Margaret.
Other Wrathalls from Bentham and the area may be interested to know that there is a Wrathall web site at:
http://www.wrathall.org

Donald also had a twin brother, William. Sadly, he died after only 8 days.

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