Roald joins the British Embassy in Washington as an assistant air attaché, working alongside the British novelist C. Roald re-joins his squadron, now stationed in Greece. He is transferred to a military hospital in Alexandria, Egypt to recuperate, taking several months to recover. Roald crash lands his Gladiator aircraft in the Libyan desert, suffering a fractured skull and temporary blindness. Roald leaves Shell to join a Royal Air Force training squadron in Nairobi, Kenya, where he learns to fly fighter planes. Roald moves to East Africa to take up a 3-year contract in the Shell branch office in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Roald accepts a position as a clerk with the Shell Oil Company in London, living with his mother and sisters in Bexley, Kent, and commuting into the city each day. Roald moves on to Repton Public School in the village of Repton, Derbyshire, starting a term later than most of the other pupils. Peter’s Preparatory School, a boarding school in Weston–super–Mare. Roald’s mother removes him from Llandaff Cathedral School and he transfers to St. – Roald Dahl recounting his shock when he found Mrs Pratchett’s sweetshop closed the day after her fright, fearing she may have died. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. Roald and some school friends get into trouble for The Great Mouse Plot, in which they place a dead mouse in a jar of Gobstoppers at their local sweetshop, causing the shopkeeper Mrs Pratchett to drop and smash the jar in fright. Roald begins his schooling at Llandaff Cathedral School, a Preparatory School for boys just a short distance from his home at the time, Cumberland Lodge. Roald’s sisters Alfhild, Else and Asta start kindergarten at the same time. Roald starts attending kindergarten at the Elmtree House nursery school in Llandaff. The Dahl family head back to Llandaff, moving into a more modest-sized house called Cumberland Lodge. Harald Dahl, Roald’s father, dies of pneumonia, aged 57.Īsta Dahl, Roald’s fourth and younger sister, is born. The Dahl family move to Ty Mynydd (‘Mountain House’), a large farmhouse in Radyr.Īstri Dahl, Roald’s older sister, dies from appendicitis, aged just 7 years old. Roald Dahl is born in Llandaff, in the large house (Villa Marie) built to his father Harald’s own specifications.Įlse Dahl, Roald’s third and younger sister, is born. They later marry and she returns with him to Llandaff, near Cardiff.Īstri Dahl, Roald’s first and older sister, is born.Īlfhild Dahl, Roald’s second and older sister, is born. Harald Dahl meets fellow-Norwegian Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg whilst visiting Denmark.
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Louis Dahl, Roald’s future half-brother, is born. Harald Dahl marries his first wife, Marie Beaurin-Gresser, in Paris.Įllen Marguerite Dahl, Roald’s future half-sister, is born. Harald Dahl arrives in Wales, having first left home in Norway to spend time living in Paris. Sofie Magdalene Hesselberg, Harald’s future second wife and Roald’s mother, is born.