Where were you born
I was born and raised in Liverpool during WW11. My father was a policeman and my mother was a housewife. My mother died when I was ten years old and my father re-married when i was thirteen. I joined a military college when I was fifteen and upon graduation from there served for nine years with the British Army.
What prompted you to start writing
Actually it was my father's death that prompted me to take up writing. I learned more about my dad after he died than I knew whilst he was alive. They were little things here and there, but added together they painted quite a picture. There was so much that I didn't know. I then realized that my boys would be in the same boat as I had kept so much to myself about my early life and military service. This prompted me to write a brief auto biography about my life for their benefit. I had never written before, but once I had completed it I then thought I could actually write a book if I put my mind to it. That was how it all started.
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