[1] Clara married "Jack" (John) Milburn in 1905 and they led a middle class life with a lifelong maid and two cars.
[1] Her brother and her husband worked at Alfred Herbert Ltd, who manufactured machine tools in Coventry.
Her only son was serving in the Territorial Army and in January he was sent overseas; the following month she started the diary that would record her family and Coventry's experience of the Second World War.
[1] That year, Milburn and her family were sheltering from German bombers who were conducting nighttime raids over Britain.
[5] Her diary features in a book by Virginia Nicholson about women's experiences in Coventry during the Second World War.