This Is Your Life: Ronald Menday

Lt Colonel Ronald MENDAY MC (1913–2001)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Ronald Menday, welfare officer and former Army Officer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at his home, Turner's Court in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Ronald, who grew up on a farm near Canterbury, worked as a welfare officer in London before enlisting with the Highland Light Infantry at the start of the Second World War. As second in command of No.4 Commando at Normandy on D-Day, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished services.

After the war, he worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, assisting in repatriating millions of refugees and displaced persons across Europe. He later established Turner's Court, a children's home for boys who were homeless, from broken homes or in need of special help.

programme details...

Edition No: 171
Subject No: 172
Broadcast live: Mon 20 Nov 1961
Broadcast time: 7.55-8.30pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 7
Edition: 8

on the guest list...

Peter Gough
Tamsyn Imison
Frank - brother
S A 'Sass' Smith
Sid Flury
Col Robert Dawson
Col Philippe Kieffer
Joe Wilson
Lady Laycock
Jean Booth
Gerzy Drzcwiecki - live link
Inge - wife
Joe Stanley
Lord Lovat
Sir John Hunt

production team...

Researchers: Arthur Sellwood, Suzanne Twiston-Davies
Writer: Peter Moore
Director: Yvonne Littlewood
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

related page...

Military Life

saluting the armed forces

Series 7 subjects