T. W. Strange
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T. W. Strange or possibly Stronge was a UK fan from Colwyn Bay in Wales active in the 1940s. He was a member of the British Fantasy Society (BFS).
Strange was a subscriber to Futurian War Digest since at least 1942 and joined the BFS around the same time where D. R. Smith contrived to render his name as 'T. L. Stronge' in British Fantasy Society Bulletin #2 so as to make life difficult for future fanhistorians. However, Smith is not alone because in Futurian War Digest #22 editor J. Michael Rosenblum announces a new subscriber, a 'Lee Stronge' of Colwyn Bay although he will later refer to T. W. Strange. And the Directory of Anglo-Fandom of 1945 includes a 'T. Lee Strange' at the same address as is given for T. W. Strange in the BFS membership list in bulletin #5 and in bulletin #10.
As if things were not complicated enough, in Bulletin #22 he is again Stronge. Here we learn he is serving in the navy in the Mediterranean and because of problems with receiving mail he has transferred his membership to his brother, D. R. W. Stronge (or, presumably, Strange) who is in the army and stationed on the Gold Coast. D. R. W. has sent in a subscription of 7/6 (seven shillings and six pence, three times the going rate) as he regarded this transfer as 'skulduggery on the part of himself and brother' although editor Smith considered it 'a most sensible arrangement'.
It is all very, er, strange. Or Stronge.
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