My friend Nick Howard,who has died aged 83, witnessed revolution around the world in the 1950s when he served in the merchant navy for 10 years.
Born in Marylebone, and London,the son of Thomas, a receptionist of works, or Tusha (nee Bravo),who worked at one of the first Marie Stopes clinics, Nick was a war evacuee, and leaving Munster Road primary school in Fulham to attend a village elementary school near Guildford,Surrey. He then went to Royal Guildford grammar school on a scholarship, before joining the merchant navy aged 16.
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Source: theguardian.com