Ben Nuttall-Smith (Boucher):  

Life Born on safari in Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania) in 1933, I, Ben Nuttall-Smith, survived English boarding schools, the London blitz, doodle-bugs, and V2 rockets. When my father was killed in North Africa, my mother remarried and my name was changed to Benoit Boucher. In March 1945, I sailed with three younger sisters to Canada. En route, we witnessed one of Grand Admiral Donitz' last attempts to sink Allied convoys. At seventeen, I joined the Canadian Navy. Later adventures and misadventures led to a lifetime vocation as a teacher of Music, Theatre, Art, and Language from 1958 until I retired in 1991. Ten of those earliest teaching years were dedicated to a Catholic order as Brother Bonaventure. However, with increasing opposition from superiors to my involvement in the Arts, I grew disillusioned and left the order. Inevitably, I fell in love, married, and had children of my own. Later, in 1982, I found my own father, alive and well in England and reclaimed my name Nuttall-Smith. But, a short time later, memories of childhood abuse returned, resulting in a breakdown, an end to my teaching career, and destruction of my marriage. Living on my ...Expand for more