Ted attended the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich before spending his last year of school at Holbrook. 

 

The Royal Navy was Ted's life, he worked his way through World War 2 and the Royal Navy ranks with hopes and dreams of a better future for all of his kin.  Sadly, Ted passed away in 1982.  However, his daughter Merry Swan laid claim to a 'manuscript' he had been working on and decided to finish it off for him and to publish their work.

 

Over the years Ted had written a number of odes and prose as well as sketching many cartoons.  There are also thirteen short stories in the book which are based on events Ted had experienced - encounters he had written down or passed on by word-of-mouth.

 

Merry dropped into the School with her brother, Ian, also a former pupil to tell us about the book and to kindly donate a copy to the School library.

 

The book will be released on the 30th November but orders can be placed at www.troubador.co.uk or via www.amazon.co.uk 

 

For each copy sold, a donation will be made to Help For Heroes.