here he lived with his mother. At the age of twelve, his only choice of schooling was at a school that was sixteen miles away, so he then decided to board at Kilmarnock Academy, but he still had to walk a round trip of twelve miles from the train station, every weekend. After spending one year at Kilmarnock, he went to London to join his brother and begin schooling at the Polytechnic. To pay for his schooling, he worked for a shipping company at the age of sixteen. Through the shipping company he met people who helped him join the London – Scottish Volunteers. He played water polo on
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