Brief background My father, Edgar Mervyn Everley, was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire on 17 June 1916. His father wanted to call him William but his mother insisted on Edgar Mervyn.
However, his father got his own way in the long term as all his life he was called ‘Bill’.
On a holiday arranged for children and young people from the industrial areas to stay at a landowner’s estate in England, Bill started a conversation with the landowner and they discovered that they both had an interest in the newly developing field of electronics. Bill spent the rest of the holiday in the Manor house building electronic projects with the squire!
This interest in electronics allowed Bill to leave the reserved occupation of mining early in World War II and to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) on the technical staff.
After the war, he worked on the civilian technical side for the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) at Tywyn and Bridgend. Bill died,
