World War One adventures of Maldon orphan William Caldicott | Clacton and Frinton Gazette
It was being run by a community of German, Carmelite, Sacred Heart nuns. The superior was the 31-year-old, gloriously Wagnerian-sounding Bronislawa Frittner. She was in charge of 12 other sisters, all aged in their 20s and 30s, and who doubled as nurses, gardeners, a secretary, doorkeeper and a cook. In addition, there were two English servants. ‘St Joseph’s Home for Orphan Children’, as it was officially known, was a refuge for 47 “inmate boys”, most of them from London (although there were a couple from Germany and even one from America). The youngest was just one year...
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