He wrote The Small Woman (1957), the story of Gladys Aylward, The Longest Tunnel: the true story of World War II's great escape, Seven Men at Daybreak (1960) about Operation Anthropoid, The Lovely Sergeant (1963) about Flora Sandes, Daylight Must Come: The story of a courageous woman doctor in the Congo, a travelogue entitled No Risk - No Romance, and a novel, The Word for Love (1970).
The school was then re-named after Gladys Aylward the missionary who had grown up in nearby Cheddington Road.
In 1966, the school was visited by the Christian missionary Gladys Aylward, whose life was the subject of the 1958 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
Gladys Knight | Gladys Knight & the Pips | Pete and Gladys | Gladys Brockwell | Gladys Cooper | Gladys Aylward | Kevin Aylward | Gladys Moncrieff | Gladys Noel Bates | Florence Aylward | Aylward M. Blackman | Smashed Gladys | Nicholas Aylward Vigors | John Aylward | James P. Aylward | Gladys Walton | Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi | Gladys Swetland | Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough | Gladys Shelley | Gladys Powers | Gladys McConnell | Gladys Lunn | Gladys Lehman | Gladys' Leap | Gladys Kravitz | Gladys Kessler | Gladys Horton | Gladys Henson | Gladys Heldman |