In 1941 my father died, and my mother had the opportunity to have me educated at the Royal Masonic School at Bushey, in Hertfordahire. I went there in September 1942. We were about 15 Miles north ...

I was six years old when the war started in 1939 and at the tender age of eight in April 1941 became a border at a boarding school in Bushey, Herts where I was to spend the rest of the war apart ...