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Born at Hythe, Kent , England , Raddall was the son of British army officer Thomas Head Raddall and Ellen (née Gifford) Raddall. In 1913, he moved with his family moved to Nova Scotia where his father had assumed a training position with the Canadian Militia. When World War I began, the elder Raddall joined the war effort. He was killed in action in August 1918 at Amiens when Thomas was still a youth. In Halifax , Thomas Raddall attended Chebucto School until 6 December 1917 , when the school was converted into a temporary morgue in the wake of the Halifax Explosion . The Raddall family survived the explosion. Raddall wrote about his experiences in his memoirs, ''In My Time'', and in his civic history ''Halifax, Warden of the North''. Raddall was a prolific, award-winning writer. He received Governor General's Awards for three of his books, ''The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek'' ( 1943 Governor General's Awards ), ''Halifax, Warden of the North'' ( 1948 Governor General's Awards ) and ''The Path of Destiny'' ( 1957 Governor General's Awards ). In 1971, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died in Liverpool, Nova Scotia , where he had settled. An exact replica of his study, furnished with his possessions, is on view at the Thomas Raddall Research Centre, administered by the Queens County Historical Society, of which Raddall was a founding member in 1929. His correspondence is housed at the Dalhousie University Archives, which also runs the Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project, currently digitizing his published and unpublished writing. The Thomas Head Raddall Literary Award , honours his legacy. LIST OF BOOKS
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