Ivor & Joan Kelloway

click Kelloway for others in this family

Ivor Kelloway was born in Somerset

Joan Chilton born was the daughter of Frank & Elsie Chilton

Ivor was in the RAF during the 2nd World War. click RAF Local Residents for his RAF career.

Ian Kelloway, Ivor and Joan son, wrote the following for the RAF Local Residents report :-

After V.E. Day.   The RAF allowed the youths like Ivor to go one day a week to try out a civilian workplace.   Having a friend at Mill End School, High Wycombe, Ivor went there.

Ivor then applied for a place at St. Lukes College, Exeter for a two year course for teachers.   The RAF agreed to his discharge and also agreed sponsorship for him.

Personal History

Spring 1945.  Frank Chilton, stalwart of Lacey Green Sports Club, hearing there was a good cricketer at Bomber Command, cycled over to the base to invite him to come and play. click Frank & Elsie Chilton for more about Frank

February 1947 (a winter of record snow) Ivor Kelloway, from Somerset, married Joan, the daughter of Frank and Elsie Chilton, of Lacey Green. Ivor never lost his enthusiasm for sport and was for many years a school headmaster in High Wycombe.

For more links in Ivor's history above --for Ian Kelloway click Ian & Sue Kelloway

Ivor and Joan had 4 children as follows :-