Frank Heny Mawer

At the time of a reunion in January 1950 he is living at 44 Callington Road, Brislington, Bristol. Initially billeted with the Gray family at Radmore Road he later moved to Bathwick Street.

Frank joined the 6th Somerset (Bath Admiralty) Battalion Home Guard early in the war. One day, when he was working at Foxhill, he was asked by his boss to go and see a Commander Morrison at the Francis Hotel in Queens Square. On arrival Morrison closed the door and said "I am now going to talk to you about something which, if you don't want to join, I trust you will forget all about, and I'm not going to hold it against you". He said he would join and was told to report to (later) Captain Aves.

Frank and his girlfriend 'Dodo' Morgan went to the 1941 New Years Ball at the Assembly Rooms which he had borrowed a tail-coat for. After the Blitz in 1942 they walked past and remembered the dance, "Dodo burst into tears, she couldn't help it". 'Dodo' (Gloria Mavis Morgan) went on to marry Arthur Rowe but after his death she married Frank in Bath Abbey 30 March 1946. Frank thought that a lot of people in Bath decided the young people needed taking care of so things were organised for them. Frank played rugby for "The Exiles" (the Civil Service exiles) on the Royal School playing ground above Ensleigh. 

He joined the Admiralty as a Clerk 10 Une 1938. In 1946 he travelled to Singapore with work as a Government Official.

His daughter Sally recalled; "I believe Frank was a member of the Admiralty 1 Patrol from 1940-42, when he was posted by the Admiralty to Ceylon where he worked from 1942-44, when he returned home. His entire working life was spent with the Admiralty/MoD. He spoke little about his war period and my memory of his Auxiliary Unit Patrol times was only refreshed after his death in 2002 by finding in his possessions a note that he had contributed to the planting of a Memorial Tree (Oak Tree No 3) in the grounds of Coleshill".