Roy Ayling and Norman Gibson
In this podcast Miriam Saphira talks about her father Norman and his relationship with Roy. The two men met as soldiers during WW1 and formed a very close bond - was it homosexual, homosocial or something else?
Roy's Cenotaph record can be viewed here and Norman's Cenotaph record can been viewed here. Miriam's book which details the relationship is called A Man's Man: A Daughters Story, published in 1997.
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![Roy Aylings love poem Old Sunshine written [probably] to Norman Gibson](https://pridenz.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/2-1460276253-7092.jpg)
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