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Maggie Fergusson. Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse
Preface
Emile Cammaerts, 1943
Kippe
Michael’s parents’ wedding, 26 June 1941. Left to right: Arthur and Edith Bridge, Jeanne and Francis Cammaerts, Tony and Kippe, Elizabeth, Tita and Emile Cammaerts
Pieter Cammaerts
Jack Morpurgo
Michael and Pieter outside 84 Philbeach Gardens
Pieter and Michael, 1948
Michael, 1948
Captain Michael, centre of middle row
Michael playing cricket
First XV at The Abbey, winter 1954. Mr Beagley stands centre back, Michael sits cross-legged, front left
Michael (left, kneeling) with siblings at an exhibition organised by the National Book League
New Hall
Pieter and Michael with younger brother Mark (son of Kippe and Jack)
Again at New Hall
Michael at King’s School, Canterbury, 1959
First XV, King’s School, Canterbury, spring 1962. Michael stands on the far right, next to Peter Campbell. Sebastian Barker is fifth from the left
Michael at King’s School, Canterbury
Michael, third from left in the first row, marching in formation
‘Spotless Officer Number One’, January 1961
Michael meets Pandit Nehru, 28 January 1961
Michael in India, January 1961
Michael escorts the Queen Mother during her visit to King’s School, Canterbury, 12 July 1962
Tony Bridge as Magwitch in Great Expectations, 1962
Clare, 1962
Allen Lane with daughter Clare
Clare and Michael at the Beagle Ball, Sandhurst, 20 December 1962
Canon Shirley with Michael and Clare at Sebastian’s christening, 1 April 1964
Michael (second from left, staff row) at St Faith’s, summer 1969
Clare with Captain
Nethercott House
Children from Chivenor School, Castle Vale, watch the birth of Poogly’s calf, January 1976
Michael reading on the farm
Carol and Ted Hughes
Michael working with children at Nethercott
Children from Hoxton swimming in the Torridge during a week at Nethercott, 1976
At Sea
Michael in Scilly
The two Michaels
Michael and Clare after being invested as MBE, 12 November 1999
Michael with Princess Anne on the farm
Michael in Ypres
Michael reads to children from St John the Baptist School, Hoxton, spring 2003
Michael makes two new friends in Australia
Michael at the Kremlin
Toby Sedgwick (choreographer), Tom Morris and Adrian Kohler in rehearsal
Puppeteer Tim Lewis with Topthorn
Michael and Clare as extras in War Horse, with Steven Spielberg
Clare and Michael with four of their granddaughters, 2005. Left to right: Lucie, Eloïse, Léa and Alice
Activities
Thinking About the Creation of this Text
General Activities
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For Flora and Izzy
Title Page
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So it came as a relief when, just after his seventh birthday, plans were made for Michael to leave St Matthias and join Pieter at his prep school in Sussex. Kippe took him on a bus to Selfridges, and he remembers the delight of being measured up, of being the centre of attention, of watching his ‘amazing’ uniform (green, red and white cap; blazer ‘like the coat of many colours’; rugby boots; shiny, black, lace-up shoes; socks; shorts; shirts and ties) piling up on the counter – ‘all for me!’ He had remained, despite everything, a happy child, ‘very positive, full of laughs, a bit of a show-off’, and the prospect of prep school was thrilling. ‘I was really looking forward to it,’ he says. ‘I had no idea what was in store.’
It can be uncomfortable when family stories believed to be true are revealed as myth. When Maggie told me the truth about my uncle Pieter’s death, it took a while to sink in. The story I’d believed for nearly seventy years had entered deeply into my imagination. I wanted to work Uncle Pieter into a story. And I set it at number 84 Philbeach Gardens.
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