Ash u3a Monthly Meeting
16 Jul 2024
Venue: St. Mary's Church Hall (Visit Website)
Address: 203 Vale Rd, Ash Vale, Aldershot GU12 5JE (Go to Map)
Organised by: Diana Wilson / for more information phone 07742 657652
Speaker: Simon Keable Elliot
A tale of love in war time - an affair between a military chaplain and a nurse.
Simon Keable tells a story about his grandfather, Robert Keable, who wrote a scandalous semi-autobiographical bestselling novel after WW1 about an affair between a military chaplain and a nurse. Robert had been a missionary in Africa before becoming a chaplain in France in WW1. After the war he ran away to Tahiti where he lived in Paul Gauguin’s house and later married a Tahitian princess!