Subfonds 0011MJG - Michael Joseph Grima

3 oral history recordings, 3 digital surrogates of photographic paper, 4 born-digital photographs, 3 digital surrogates of ephemera

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.