The Warner Letters

Some years ago June Bush inherited a set of diaries, journals and letters written between 1853 and 1863 by her great-great-grandfather Captain Richard Warner. Also with the collection were sixty-five letters from his son Ashton Cromwell Warner, who as a young serving officer in the Bengal Army, found himself caught up in the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.


June Bush was born in 1938. A fairly disrupted early childchood was followed by a more peaceful period after the Second World War as the family was reunited and settled in Warwickshire. At the age of thirteen she was sent away to boarding school and later, having trained as a secretary, worked for a time in the Dorchester Hotel in London. She was married in 1962 and has two sons and a daughter.