Joy Cave

Joy B. Cave was born in the City of London in 1922, and educated at Luton High School for Girls at the University of London. During the Second World War she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and in 1943 marred Norman Cave, who ended the war as a captain in the Cheshire Regiment. At the time of the publication of her first book – What Became of Corporal Pittman? (1974) – she was an English teacher at what was then the Priory School for Girls, but she has subsequently retired. A founder member of the Western Front Association, for which she does much work, she visits the Great War battlefields of France and Belgium at least once a year. She also feels an an special attachment to Newfoundland – her second book was Two Newfoundland VCs (1984) – and visits that province as often as she can. She and her husband have lived in Shropshire for the past thirty years.