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DR ERNEST
MOLD
Born:
London, 1915
Lived: Lynton
Recording made: 2000
Length of recording: 2 hrs 47 mins
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A firm non-combatant in the Royal Medical Corps, Ernest Mold was among those parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, in Operation Overlord. He trained as a doctor after the war, moving with his wife (pregnant with twins), to Lynton in 1953.
The practice also covered Parracombe and Brendon, where he ran a surgery in the pub. Supremely fit from his time in the army, he walked miles in the snow to visit his patients and took part in cliff rescues. In those early days there were often car accidents on the steep hills; he was called out 14 times over his first Easter weekend.
A keen sailor, he kept a picaroona at Lynmouth. He used to sail round to visit the Hallidays at Glenthorne, wading up the beach in his bathing trunks. He was a founding member of the Lyn and Exmoor Museum and, with an interest in archaeology, has spent many hours walking the moors identifying standing stones.
postscript - Dr Ernest Mold died in January 2005