David and I were first cousins.  His mother, Alice, and my father, Harold, were brother and sister.  Two of the fifteen children of Edward and Susan Webster.  I met David when I was a child. His family lived in Potters Bar, Herts. David was eight years older. He had a brother, Raymond.  We had no real contact until a few years ago when we had a long telephone conversation and exchanged our family history.  I admired, so much, his musical talent.  His father, Maurice, was a fine musician, as related by my Dad.

As a small boy, I attended ‘Saturday Morning Pictures’ in Dalston, London E8.  The organist/pianist, known as Uncle Norman to us all, was actually Norman Heming, David’s uncle, the brother of his father, Maurice. ‘Uncle Norman’ accompanied me when I sang ‘The Spaniard that Blighted my Life’ in 1947. In a cinema talent contest.

i discovered so much about David’s life in our conversation,  and I am so pleased that we had a certain fill-in of information.

Best wishes to his family, and tender thoughts from a first cousin.

Norman Webster

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