Gallagher, Harry

The author was born in humble circumstances to Mum and Dad on a council estate in Shafton Nr Barnsley. Dad was a collier and Mum was a clippie during 1929, the year of the Wall Street crash. Harry attended the elementary and secondary modern schools in the area. His dad got him a job at the local butcher when he left school. This continued until Harry volunteered for the army and took the Kings shilling in 1946. During his service he was promoted to sergeant before he was 19. He was then posted to Hamburg in Germany to run a coal depot. After he was demobbed, it proved a bitterly cold winter a...