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This provided his first experience of an educated, middle-class life. He returned to London with a new, vowel-elongated accent. In 1944, aged 18, he was called up to the British Army. He became a sapper in the Royal Engineers Survey Section, doing much the same work that he had done as a civilian. When the war ended, he was in Ceylon, and he opted to transfer to the Combined Services Entertainment Unit,

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