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Born in England just before WWII, in fact I was Christened the day war on Germany was declared. My father left to join Montgomery's Eighth Army, and during the bombing of London my mother took me to Llangenny in Wales to safety, except that I then contracted polio (or infantile paralysis as it was called in those days). We returned to London for my treatment. Subsequently my mother was called up to work in a munitions factory, and I was sent to live with my Aunt Ethel in Surrey, and until I was seven believ