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Mikelina Vella

  • MT NAM MEM-0012MV
  • Subfonds
  • 1927-2017

    • Part of Memorja

Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Mikelina Vella was born on the 5th of January 1927 in Mosta. Her parents had owned a drapery shop and she had eleven siblings. She had spent the 1950s and 1960s working as a cleaner for British service families in Sliema and Ta' Xbiex. She later worked as a batwoman for Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) airmen until 1974 and then worked as a cleaner at the Mtarfa Military Hospital between 1974 and 1979. Her last job was in the laundry section of St Vincent de Paul retirement home and she had retired in the early 1980s.

Mikelina Vella_part02_27.06.2017

Mikelina Vella_part02_27.06.2017

  • MT NAM MEM-0012MV-01-01-02
  • Item
  • 27/06/2017

    • Part of Memorja

In the second part of the interview, Mikelina Vella explained the Victory Kitchens and the food (or lack thereof) that used to be available. She decried the lack of medical care - her family had not been visited by a doctor during the war - and the lack of sanitation. She recalled the (Air Raid Precautions) A.R.P., unexploded bombs and the bombs which had penetrated the Mosta Rotunda.

Ettore Raffi

  • MT NAM MEM-0001ER
  • Subfonds
  • 1938-2017

    • Part of Memorja

Ettore Raffi was born in Lampedusa on the 12th of November 1938 to a family of fishermen. He had two male siblings. He started working at sea when he was 15 years old and some of his destinations included Mississippi and Panama while he was a marine engineer. He left in 1982 when he became a janitor at a school in Lampedusa. He got married and had three children: two girls and a boy. He had always lived in Lampedusa.

Interview

  • MT NAM MEM-0007HLG-01
  • Series
  • 08/02/2018-15/03/2019

    • Part of Memorja

Maria Therese Gatt at Għajn Tuffieħa bay

Maria Therese Gatt at Għajn Tuffieħa bay

  • MT NAM MEM-0007HLG-02-13
  • Item
  • June 1947

    • Part of Memorja

Maria Therese Gatt née Frendo Randon at Ghajn Tuffieha bay during her honeymoon. The promontory in the background is 'Ras Il-Qarraba.'

Henry Louis Gatt at Għajn Tuffieħa bay

Henry Louis Gatt at Għajn Tuffieħa bay

  • MT NAM MEM-0007HLG-02-15
  • Item
  • June 1947

    • Part of Memorja

Henry Louis Gatt at Ghajn Tuffieha bay during his honeymoon. The building in the background is the Riviera Martinique Hotel.

A young Alfred Joseph Gatt

A young Alfred Joseph Gatt

  • MT NAM MEM-0007HLG-02-40
  • Item
  • 1890s

    • Part of Memorja

Alfred Joseph Gatt was the father of Henry Louis Gatt. Alfred had joined the Royal Malta Artillery (R.M.A.) in the early-1900s and along with his brother William, he was transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (R.A.O.C.). Both of them had been stationed overseas between 1914-1919. Alfred was Mentioned in Despatches and he was also awarded the Military Cross either on or for actions dated the 3rd of June 1916 during the Battle of Gallipoli. After his distinguished First World War service, he was given command of the R.M.A. from 1935 until the beginning of the Second World War, when he was appointed Commander Fixed Defences. In 1941 he was made Colonel Commandant of the R.M.A. and had died in 1950 aged 67.

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