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Bill Banning
Born in Penge South East London, May 1925, Bill Banning left Alexandra Elementary School in 1938 as war threatened. He worked for a scrap metal merchant salvaging steel and alumini...view moreBorn in Penge South East London, May 1925, Bill Banning left Alexandra Elementary School in 1938 as war threatened. He worked for a scrap metal merchant salvaging steel and aluminium for building battleships and Spitfires and for an electrical engineering firm making electric motors before joining the Royal Navy
In late 1943 he was discharged with TB and spent two periods totaling 20 months in a TB Hospital and a Sanatorium.
In 1947 he married and having recovered, worked as electrician in the Construction Industry until December 1956 when the disease broke out again. He underwent surgery, was treated with modern drugs and cured.
He later served as Trade Union Official for Electrical, Electronic and Plumbing Trades Union, National Officer for the British Airline Pilots Association and National Organiser for the National Union of Licensed Victualers.
At 78 he read Philosophy at Birmingham University.view less