I was born in 1924 and lived in North London; at the beginning of WW2, I was evacuated with my school to North Devon. I left school in 1942 and went to work for a Quantity Surveyor in Westminster.
In January 1943, I volunteered for the Army and joined a Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment at Bovington. I was selected for officer training, but because they had a surplus of tank officers at the time, I went to an Infantry Officer Cadet Training Unit at Barmouth, North Wales.
Commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, I served with the Second Battalion of that Regiment in the 51st(Highland) Division in Holland, Belgium and Germany for the last six months of the war in Europe. Subsequently, I served in Sierra Leone, West Africa until I was demobilised in 1947.
The full story of my Army service is contained in a memoir filed in the archives of the Imperial War Museum.
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