Young George dropped out of school in 1868, out of sheer independent resolve and not out of compulsion. He admired his mother’s courage and wanted to make her life comfortable by getting her out of the shabby state of family affairs. So he decided to work and help his mother meet expens...
Colonel Neil “Chick” Harding, (played by James Murray in MotA) was a West Point graduate and the school’s football coach before the war. A veteran of the interwar public relations flights to South America proving the efficacy of airpower, Harding was a seasoned aviator who emulated much ...
Refused an interview at the local art school he entered the Naval Dockyard at Chatham as an apprentice stonemason. During the following six months he produced some six hundred drawings. On the basis of this work he was accepted into St Martin’s School of Art to study painting. However, ...