Harry Leslie Smith | |
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| Born | 25 February 1923 Barnsley, England |
| Died | 28 November 2018 (aged 95) Belleville, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Author Social activist Columnist Oriental rug importer (retired) RAF serviceman (formerly) |
| Citizenship | British[1][2][3] |
| Notable works | The Barley Hole Chronicles The Empress of Australia 1923: A Memoir Harry's Last Stand |
| Spouse |
Elfriede Gisela "Friede" Edelmann
(m. 1947; died 1999) |
| Children | 3 sons |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  Royal Air Force |
| Years of service | 1941–1948[5] |
| Website | |
| harryslaststand | |
Harry Leslie Smith (25 February 1923 – 28 November 2018)[6][7] was an English writer and political commentator.[1][2][3] He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953. After retiring, Smith wrote his memoirs and about the social history of 20th-century Britain. Smith wrote five books, about life in the Great Depression, the Second World War, and post-war austerity,[8] and columns for The Guardian, New Statesman, The Daily Mirror, International Business Times, and the Morning Star. He appeared in public at the 2014 Labour Party conference in Manchester, and during the 2015 general election and the 2016 EU membership referendum. In Canada he made a 2015 "Stand Up for Progress" national tour.
- ^ a b "Harry Leslie Smith – 'Don't let the mean streets of my past be our future'". Radio NZ. 25 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Writers". New Statesman. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ a b Harry Leslie Smith – Don't Let My Past Be Your Future – Little, Brown Book Group. littlebrown.co.uk. 14 September 2017. ISBN 9781472123466. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ Harry Leslie Smith (20 October 2018). "Tweet". @Harryslaststand (confirmed). Twitter. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
My wife Elfriede Gisela Edelmann was born on Oct 20, 1928 in Hamburg Germany. She was the illegitimate daughter of a Berlin socialist trade unionist and a Bohemian hotel manager who lived on the outskirts of the Reeperbahn.
- ^ Smith, Harry Leslie (31 October 2014). ""Hunger, filth, fear and death": remembering life before the NHS". New Statesman. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ Smith, Harry Leslie (24 February 2017). "Don't dread old age. I'm 94, and I won't spend my last years in fear of the Tories". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ Davies, Caroline (28 November 2018). "Harry Leslie Smith, vocal critic of austerity, dies aged 95". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Harry Leslie Smith: profile". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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