Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Albert Ganado was born on the 9th of March 1924 in Valletta, the only male among 7 sisters. His mother was a housewife and his father was Judge Robert Ganado. Albert had practiced as a lawyer from 1947 till 2008 and he had also published in academic journals on various aspects of Maltese history, including art, legislation, politics and philately. One of his cousins was Herbert Ganado, a Maltese politician who, along with others, had been interned and deported during the Second World War.
Experiencing war
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Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Henry Louis Gatt was born on the 20th of January 1923 in Valletta. He had 5 brothers and 8 sisters. His mother was a housewife while his father was Brigadier Alfred J. Gatt, a career army officer who had been posted to Gallipoli during the First World War where he was awarded the Military Cross. During the Second World War, he had been made Commander of Fixed Defences. Between 1940 and 1970 Henry was a Royal Malta Artillery (RMA) officer and was stationed in Malta, Palestine, the UK and Germany. He retired with the rank of Major. He had two children: a boy and a girl.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Laurence Mizzi was born on the 28th of November 1931 in Vittoriosa (Birgu). He had 7 siblings: 1 sister and 6 brothers. His mother was a housewife and his father had worked at H.M. Dockyard. Laurence lived in Vittoriosa, Gudja and Paola and had a boy and a girl. He had worked as a teacher, a scriptwriter, a school broadcasting organiser and lastly as a member and Chairman of the Broadcasting Authority. He was also a publishing author with his focus being the Second World War. Three well-known works of his are 'Wartime Diary of a Maltese Boy,' 'The People's War, Malta: 1940-1943,' and 'When War Broke Out.'
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Loulou Mifsud Bonnici was born on the 4th of February 1928 in Sliema. Her father had been a clerk at a shipping agency, her mother was a housewife and she had three sisters. Loulou's mother was born in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir), Turkey. She had been evacuated to Malta during the Turkish offensive on the city and the subsequent large fire which had destroyed parts of Smyrna. Loulou was a teacher at St Joseph School in Sliema between 1952-1954 and she had also lived in London for a year between 1957-1958. She had one son.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Maria Stella 'Esther' Formosa was born on the 19th of November 1931. She had 8 siblings: 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Her father, who died before the war at the age of 33, worked at the Imperial Hotel, Sliema and her mother was a housewife. Esther was a dressmaker at Hamrun and Santa Venera from 1945 till 1974. She had lived in Hamrun, Santa Venera and Saint Paul's Bay and had 6 children.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Maurice Mifsud Bonnici was born in Lija in 1926. He had a brother and 4 sisters. His father was a Senior Sanitary Inspector and had been officially responsible for Lija and other localities. His mother was a housewife. When he was young, he used to spend Sundays with his uncle, who worked as a store officer at Ingieret. They would climb trees and shoot birds to eat them in the evening. Maurice used to work as an engineer. He had always lived in Lija and had a child called Mark.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Michael Joseph Grima was born on the 19th of December 1925 in Marsa. His father had been a soldier and a policeman while his mother was a housewife. He had 4 sisters. Michael worked as an inspector on public transport on the Rabat route between 1941 till 1942. He then served in the Malta Volunteer Defence Force (M.V.D.F.) and the Malta Auxiliary Corps (M.A.C.) during the Second World War. He found employment with the Agriculture Department starting in 1942 until retirement in 1986. He had one boy and three girls and had always lived in Rabat.
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.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Theresa Muscat-Fenech was born on the 31st of October 1928 in Attard. She had four sisters and eight brothers, four of whom had died in infancy. Her mother was a housewife and her father was a civil servant who had been Commissioner for Gozo during the Second World War. Theresa had been a teacher at Msida and St Julian's schools between 1948 and 1956. She had been married and had had two girls.
Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Vincent 'Censinu' Caruana was born on the 30th of June 1922 in Senglea. He had two sisters and four brothers. His father was a tool and coppersmith at the Floriana power station - where Censinu also worked as a mechanical fitter for 41 years before retiring in 1978 - and his mother had been a housewife. He had 1 boy and 1 girl.