RODNEY FREDERICK KELLETT

This is my brothers grave!! I have visited a few times, the cemetery is very well kept.

Yes, the cemetery has gone through quite a lot of improvement and is very well looked after as are the other military cemeteries in Malta.

It makes me happy to find family, friends still visits these grave. Would it be possible to have the names of your mum and dad to add to the info.

This is my brother's grave. I visited with my sister, Pippin , in 2013. I was greatly impressed by the wonderful way the cemetery had been maintained. It's a lovely spot.
My parents were Fred Kellett and Ethel Patricia Kellett, who were in Malta before war broke out. My Mother was evacuated on a Lancashire bomber in 1943, wearing every garment she could fit onto herself, as evacuees at that time were discouraged from carrying luggage. Baby Rodney was born a few weeks early but was very small for dates: Malta was suffering quite a lot of hunger by 1940 and the garrison was not able to have full rations. Because of the intense bombing, the hospitals used to evacuate patients to the underground tunnels used as air raid shelters, and it was hard on frail patients.
He died at two days of age, and his Mother was not well enough to attend the funeral. She saw it go past the hospital: an open car with a little white coffin on his Father's knee. Indeed, I don't know if she ever saw her son's grave.
My Father served on in Malta for some time after Mother left.She returned to Chester UK to stay with her family.
They must have met again in late 1944 as I was born in September 1945: by then Father was serving in Europe. After the war he was demobbed, largely because I was healthy & he wanted to settle in England & raise his family, which grew with the birth of my younger sister. They had no further children.

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