REMINISCENCES OF BERT DRAGE 



Cut the plane caught a high tension wire and they 

 were both killed, so the whole family were wiped 

 out except the mother who still lives in America. 

 She comes over to stay with us about once a year. 

 She is an exceptionally nice woman. 



My brother John Drage married Nellie Argyle 

 from Staffordshire about 1900 and was very happily 

 married. They had three daughters, Violet, Maie 

 and Susan. Maie and Susan followed hounds and 

 in their childhood often rode green horses straight 

 from the train from Ireland and became very keen 

 on hunting and went well. They are all married 

 and their children, who are now growing up, can be 

 seen out with the Pytchley Hounds. Violet, 

 during the last war, took over the management of 

 her husband's farms at Moulton and made a very 

 good job of it, and has enjoyed it so much that she 

 has kept an interest in agriculture ever since and 

 is a good judge of cattle. Susan worked for the 

 W.V.S., during the war and became County 

 Organiser with her sister Maie helping her. She did 

 a wonderful job feeding the agricultural workers 

 in the rural areas of the county as the W.V.S. 

 representative and received grateful thanks from 

 all the local authorities, Ministry of Food and 

 Agricultural Executive Committee at the end of war. 

 She even managed to show a financial surplus and, 

 a committee was formed and the money 

 used to purchase and endow a home 

 for old people in Northamptonshire. This home 



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