Victor John Tarry, John Tarry

Devastated by the death of his parents at the age of fourteen, orphaned he's taken into a residential trust school in Highbury, North London. His education included English, German and Mathematics. His parental home is sold in his absence. Destitute, he's forced into the Army at the latter half of the WWII. He is trained as an infantry man and served in the North African Desert, Malayan jungle and Europe, into Germany. He's twice very seriously injured and survived. Having no home to return to after the war he signs on to complete 20 years service, but because of war wounds he was no longer fi...