Frank J. Croskerry was born during the very last stages of the war in Europe, he like his two older brothers were labeled ‘war babies’. His two younger brothers were the first of t...показать большеFrank J. Croskerry was born during the very last stages of the war in Europe, he like his two older brothers were labeled ‘war babies’. His two younger brothers were the first of the ‘baby boomers’. Raised in South East Kent, England he was considered to be a bright child but a very disappointing student leaving school and home just weeks after his fourteenth birthday. Living briefly with an Irish aunt and family in Essex he was soon on his own and independently broke and motiveless.
Joined the Royal Marines on his seventeenth birthday he qualified a Commando (green beret) by the age of eighteen. By nineteen he was in the Antarctica on the British Antarctica Survey (1964). At twenty he was involved in the Indonesian war in Borneo. Qualified in parachute training in the Far east at twenty-four.
Married to ‘the girl next door’ at twenty-three and returning to civilian life at twenty- seven. At twenty-eight the father of a boy Daniel and at thirty-one a girl Anna.
Retired after exactly fifty years in the workforce and started writing seriously at last!показать меньше