"My father, I have rather vague memories of him. He was not tall, he was short... and he was a keen horseman and used to hunt regular with the old Berkley Hounds outside of Watford. They were an old established pack of fox hounds and I recall quite vividly one occasion when I couldn't have been more than five or six in which I was going for a walk with the governess and we saw the fox... come across a little valley, and shortly after the hounds came by and then the hunt, followers, all the hunt servants were not in the traditional red of the hunting field, but that particular pack had a golden or yellow hunt uniform. It's rather a striking contrast. I remember that very clearly and I think that I inherited my father's love of horses and hunting."
Quote taken from transcription of interview #1 by Dr. Reginald Roy, July 7 1965.
(ACC 74-1 Box 1.1 p.4)
Photo: Lieutenant Colonel George R. Pearkes with his father. England, c.
1917.
(ACC 83-188 Box 1.1.5) Image Size 31KB
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