The History of Wandsworth Common

Our Family

Last modified: 11 October 2026

Pages about my own family: my parents, my mother's family from Ikaria, and family photographs.

Build 5 — 11 October 2026

My parents and me

— Edward James Boys (1916–2002) — my father: Sussex farmer's boy, Coldstream Guardsman, prisoner of war, Wandsworth prison officer, and historian of the men of the Light Brigade

My mother's family

— Antigoni Romiliou: How I Became a War Refugee in 1942 — my mother's cousin's account of escaping from occupied Ikaria and her journey through Turkey to the Middle East

— The Ikarian Refugees, 1941–1946: Sources — testimonies, books, film and background, with a glossary of Greek words

Photographs

— Family photographs — my parents in Egypt before the war, and in Wandsworth in 1949

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