George Ernest Key

His first shop, and then marriage to Beatrice Barnard in Hull. Children: Peter and Martyn.

He left his young wife and children to join the Volunteer force in the Spanish Civil War.

So divorce followed.

A friend of his father asked him to rescue a young girl from Vienna, with the Holocaust looming. He married her in Portsmouth. Always possible to get certificates. I have his first marriage certificate.

He didn't abandon the family, he just couldn't cope with stress, so turned to drink, and he was thrown out. Same thing in the end.

Brian Morgan