Life History

Notes

• Apart from his time in the army during the second World War, Tony spent his working life with Dunlop's Rubber Company.
  When the war started most of Tony's school class enlisted as officers (he was refused on health grounds). Within a year 27 of the 30 or so classmates were dead. He eventually enlisted as aprivate in 1940. In his Dunlop's record, Tony describes his war service as: "R.V.L.I., R.A., R.E.; Private, Gunner, Sapper, Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, Warrant Officer - Everything bar latrine orderly."
  His war service was in Sri Lanka, where some of the time he was in charge of an anti-aircraft detachment (which only saw one enemy aircraft during the war). He eventually found himself in charge of around 200 local women, maintaining the airfield's runway. (In Dunlop's he later found himself in charge of a similar number of women in the accounts department.)
  Tony's career at Dunlop's started as Office Boy (1933) then Ledger Clerk (1935), Trainee (1937), Accountant (1939). After the war he was in accounts as auditor and manager, first in India during Partition (1947), then in South Africa (1950-54), where the family lived at 631, Essenwood Road, in Durban..
  When he retired he was Sales Accountant at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham.

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