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William Todd (Bill)  1924-1984

Bill was born in York and raised in Leeds, serving as a motorcycle despatch rider in the army in both Europe and India before returning to England in 1947.  He worked for Vincent HRD motor cycles and then joined BP, being sent out to work in the oil refineries of Iran and Kuwait.  He married Kathleen Holt, of Antrobus during a period of leave from the Middle East in 1957, having previously met in 1952 while she was working at the Associated Ethyl Co Ltd in Northwich where Bill attended a training course for several months.  They lived together in Kuwait from 1957-1960.



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