Hamber, David R.

I came head first into this world on 29th December 1941 to join five brothers and four sisters all living in Cranes Farm Road, Nevendon, Essex, England. By 1945, another boy and a girl had followed my lead making a nice round dozen for my mother Jesse May Bentley and father Reginald Hugh Hamber to care for. This part of Essex was then a rural farming community and we took the farm near where we lived to be our own, never realizing it would end.

By the age of six, the Labour Government banished us from our very small home, pointing the finger towards Wickford and an encampment called 'an es...