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Born in the Crockford Bridge Area, New Haw, he was educated at the City of London Freemans School.
In the Second World War, he was in the Royal Navy as a Chief Petty Officer, serving in the North Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean.
He was employed as a salesman for his father’s wholesale greengrocery business and later as Chief Cashier at Vickers Armstrong in Weybridge, then its successors BAC and British Aerospace Systems. On his retirement at 65 in November 1975, he was very proud to receive as a retirement present a test flight in Concorde with Brian Trubshaw at the controls.
He was married on February 7th 1940 to Nancy Saul Summers and had two daughters, Winsome Summers Bradley (born April 1st 1947) and Janet Emily Bradley (born 2nd June 1950).
He lived at Thames Ditton and then West Byfleet until his death in 1977.