William Green was born in West Bromwich England in 1936. He was evacuated to Exmouth in Devon at the outbreak of war in 1939. When the war fi nished he moved to Canvey Island in Essex, before going to Elmbridge Boarding School in Cranleigh Surrey. At age seventeen he joined the Royal Navy and served in submarines for twenty fi ve years. After leaving the Royal Navy he emigrated to South Africa and thirteen years later emigrated to Australia. He is married has fi ve children and lives in Perth, Western Australia.