[5] He recollected that when he first came to Lampeter many of the facilities were reserved for schoolboys who had been evacuated from Wycliffe College School in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire and were therefore out of bounds for undergraduates.
[6] In 1944 he joined the Army Intelligence Corps; he was posted to India, where he became fluent in Japanese.
[6] He was posted to Japan late in 1945 and even accompanied Emperor Hirohito on a visit to see the ruins of Hiroshima.
[6] His wife, Ruth Cecil Mary Renowden, was a part-time lecturer in mathematics.
For 17 of those years, he was also vicar of St Asaph's parish church and of two nearby villages.