130:, London in 1923, and attended Barrow Hill Road Elementary School. At sixteen he was working as an office boy, and still living at home at 146 Ashbridge Street in Marylebone. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 6 August 1942 and served in
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Artillery Tracer Card: William Oliver Guellemont Lofts
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The
Concise Magnet Companion '86, Edited by George Beal
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610:Abe Books-Burwood Books, Wickham Market
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644:Abe Books-Any Amount of Books, London
492:Catalogue of Boys & Girls Annuals
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934:Writers from the City of Westminster
706:AbeBooks-Any Amount of Books, London
394:Index: A Bibliography of Rupert Bear
252:Old Boys Books: A Complete Catalogue
332:Hutchinson Library Services, London
104:Cataloging British Juvenile Fiction
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121:William Oliver Guillemont Lofts
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154:The Saint and Leslie Charteris
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16:British researcher and author
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284:The Men Behind Boys' Fiction
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63:(1997-06-27)
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