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4 unusual facts about A. Michael Mennim


A. Michael Mennim

for officer training in 1943; was commissioned in 1944 in the Indian Mountain Artillery Regiment and posted to Ambala.

He took part in jungle warfare in Burma during the advance on Mandalay and was involved in planning for the invasion

The son is artist Peter Mennim who painted the 40th Anniversary painting of Wolfson College in which his father appears and which hangs in the Combination Room which his father built.

The President, Mr John Morrison, later announced to the Governing Body of the College that before meeting Mennim the Committee had not collectively felt enthusiasm for any of the college or university buildings which they had inspected and which had been designed by the architects they had interviewed.



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