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| | Freda Susanne Reed -- Reed and Reed 331 (7514): 458 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ |
 | | A brief encounter at Leatherhead railway station in 1943 was to herald another unexpected change in her life, for it was here that Freda met Ralph Reed, an agricultural officer in the Colonial Service on leave from Nigeria. |
 | | Born to Nat and Hettie Mackover in London’s West Hampstead, the elder sister to Leila and Harold, Freda was the senior granddaughter in a large, extended family, whose strong family values epitomised the very essence of Jewish life. |
 | | As a University College London student, the college was evacuated to Bangor, where she began her medical studies in 1940, continuing them in Leatherhead and then at the West London Hospital in the thick of the Blitz. |
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