Norman Ellison

For the football (soccer) player, see Norman Ellison (footballer).
Norman F. Ellison
Born 1893
Died 1976
Show Children's Hour
Station(s) Home Service
Network BBC
Country United Kingdom

Norman F. Ellison (1893 1976) was an English radio presenter and author who made radio programmes about nature and the countryside for the BBC's Children's Hour,[1] under the pseudonym Nomad the Naturalist, and wrote on the same subjects both as Nomad and in his own name.

Born in Liverpool in 1893,[2] he signed up as a private in the 1/6th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment,[3] at the outbreak of World War I,[2] and served in the trenches in Belgium.[2] He saw action on The Somme[3] and at Flanders[3] but was discharged in 1917[3] suffering from trench foot.[3] His war diaries were published in 1997.

In later life, he lived at West Kirby,[4] on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire.[1] He and Eric Hosking would watch birds together at Hilbre Island.[4] Six of his books were illustrated by his friend Charles Tunnicliffe.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 "The Nomad Books". The Charles Tunnicliffe Society. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  2. 1 2 3 "Remembrances of Hell...". Library Catalogue. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lengel, Edward G. (2004). World War I memories. Scarecrow Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8108-5008-8. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
  4. 1 2 Smith, Richard (1999-11-01). "The Hilbre Party". Dee Estuary Newsletter. Retrieved 2009-07-29.

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(Both include photographs of Ellison)


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