Born in North Wales in October 1928, the son of an Irishman from Portadown, Northern Ireland, who had been raised as a Catholic and had served in the British army during the First World War, but as...mehr sehenBorn in North Wales in October 1928, the son of an Irishman from Portadown, Northern Ireland, who had been raised as a Catholic and had served in the British army during the First World War, but as with so many soldiers in the carnage, waste, and destruction that was [the war to end all wars?], he lost faith in the church’s teachings and never returned to Ireland when the war ended in November 1918. He was invalidated out of the army with a shattered leg held together by a pin. He met and married a young girl and they settled down in North Wales where the author was born in 1928.weniger sehen