The Boy in the Kennel: Living Life Stories

By Ian C Kenson

It is the beginning of the second world war when a four-year-old boy and his siblings living alone in a family home in Hove, Sussex, are gathered by policemen and others and crammed into buses. After the boy arrives at a strange house somewhere in the interior of England, he soon realizes his family has been separated, hopefully not forever.
Unfortunately, the man and woman who live in his new home are angry he is a boy, not a girl. As he spends four days locked in a tiny room that contains only a bed, two blankets, and an enamel bucket, the boy bravely attempts to adjust to his less than ideal living conditions. Finally, he is allowed to emerge from his makeshift prison cell. Now only time will tell if the boy will be able to endure the verbal and physical abuse of his guardians long enough to develop into a young man able to withstand any struggle in life.
In this historical novella, a boy ripped from everything he knows at the beginning of the second world war must find a way to endure unthinkable abuse from his new guardians.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728386591

Ian C Kenson

Since his childhood, the author has taken part in numerous facets of life, volunteering for the merchant navy and sailing throughout the Far East and Australia, before volunteering in the Royal Air Force as a radio operator on air-sea rescue bases, which is where he became involved in the military throughout the Suez Crisis. After these episodes, he spent seventeen years in chemical manufacturing and the oil and gas industries, before taking on the life of an expat oil and gas worker, ending as an advisor and consultant. He spent the next forty-three years travelling the world whilst expanding his knowledge. Throughout these times, he became very competent within these industries, to the extent that he resolved production problems and numerous dangerous happenings. Specifically, he dealt with a 500,000-bbl (barrels) floating roof tank fire, successfully extinguishing it without the loss of production, whilst always considering the local communities and populations.

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The Boy

IN THE

Kennel

LIVING LIFE STORIES

IAN C. KENSON

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Published by AuthorHouse  03/25/2019

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CONTENTS

Factual Acknowledgement

Chapter 1 The Phony War

Chapter 2 Demarkation

Chapter 3 Taking A Risk

Chapter 4 Philately

Chapter 5 Incarceration

Chapter 6 Retailiation

Chapter 7 Delegation & Separation

Chapter 8 Initial Separation

Chapter 9 Segregation

Chapter 10 Billeted

Chapter 11 Wrong Choice

Chapter 12 The Beginning

Chapter 13 Obeying The Rules

Chapter 14 Chores

Chapter 15 Illness Treatment

Chapter 16 The Cupboard Hole

Chapter 17 Schooling

Chapter 18 Kindness

Chapter 19 Chapter 19

Chapter 20 Stifled Coughs

Chapter 21 Beyond Belief

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FACTUAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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R easons for reasons, throughout any or everyone’s life there are or will be reasons, the reflection of or on those reasons, always directly influences the reason, whether these reasons are relevant to whatever is ongoing or transpires from the thought of reasoning, be it because of or the simple fact, why.

Take any normal or reasonable child, who in its infancy whilst growing, is removed from these routine family surroundings. Will today’s standards cause these children or their like, create the present existing environmental standards, which normally these deprived children? Will they usually and purposely fall into the social systems trap and become devastatingly hung up on abuse drugs and later most likely crime, simply because of that initial removal of the normal siblings and family parental controls?

In dictating this story or sequences of life’s happening events will require, it is done from an outsiders point of view, as if a person is looking in rather than participating for if the story is to be believed. It must be told by the people or persons who were personally and physically involved in those lives or times, to establish the simple truth. Are their reference not remotely involved in as the life or the living of that life, so by stating their point of view with regards to any, every and all stated related events, whilst it has been described? It will become evident that not only is the story factual, it cannot be concluded as a self important centered description of a self centered childhood story.

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CHAPTER 1

THE PHONY WAR

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T here were other more poignant reasons to move families away from the coastal areas of southern England. Families who lived together as children, within a family unit, therefore and because at this juncture of events, a family of six children, four boys and two girls, aged from the eldest at twelve to the youngest at just under three years old, but had no parents in the