Pam's father first met his wife on the top of Snowdon. They were in separate groups and he took an address. When he called he was expecting a quite different girl. This story was not repeated often. Born in 1911, he was twenty- eight in 1939. War hurries some people into marriage. Others it discourages. A civil servant in a reserved occupation and suffering from some deafness, he remained a civil servant. Proud to be a civil servant it was nevertheless, for him, a matter of slight shame to be a civil servant 1939-1945. He retired at 60 and died fifteen years later.