I was born on the twenty sixth of June 1921 and christened Thomas Frederick Gorst. (Frederick , after my mothers brother, who emigrated to Canada after the First World War). As a small baby (6 months old) , I contracted Bovine Tuberculosis, a serious disease caused by drinking cows milk prior to all dairy cattle being Tuberculin tested. I suspect it is never seen in Britain today. The disease attacks the bones, and in my case it attacked the thumb and third finger on my right hand. I was treated at Leasowe Isolation Hospital , where I was separated from my parents for 18 months. By this time my brother Stanley Edward was born. The way my mother and father met is a mystery to me, my mother coming from a tiny remote village in Norfolk , named Banham. She had been employed as a domestic servant in London. My mother was born on the 1st February 1895 in Banham. She was christened Ivy Eliza Hutton , she was one of ten children , nine girls and a boy

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