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I am now aged 73 but, like most who lived through ww2, remember many details clearly - the Battle of Britain over Essex, the Blitz, rationing (eating laxative chocolate as a substitute for the real thing, my first banana after the war, SPAM, and so on). My published story only touches the fringes of those memories. And I remember much of the war news we were told such as The Battle of the River Plate, sinking the Bismark, Alamain, etc. but nearly nothing about Burma or the Russian Front. After I left school in 1949 I joined the Civil Service, then after two months, started 2 year's National Service. Thereafter I stayed working in the same Goverment Department, but with a wide variety of jobs from auditing hospitals, to Richard Crossman's Private Office, to negotiating in Brussels about medicines safety. During National Service I served in the RAOC and continued with them afterwards in the Army Reserve and in the Pool of Watchkeepers until I was aged 53. I have lived in Essex, central London, a small country town in Norfolk (Reepham), and now in Norwich City, at Bracondale Millgate.

This self portrate is based upon personal details I used as an introduacion to W.W.II. reminiscencies I published on the 大象传媒 web site, hence the bits about that war, but I noticed that some of the contributors to Action Network had not put anything about themselves into it and I wanted to take a short cut to dealing with that autobiographical shortfall myself!