This is the story of my Grandfather, who was born in Exmouth, in Devon in 1898. He was the ninth child of twelve of William Henry Holman, a Senior Pilot in Exmouth Docks. Which was then a busy port in the South West of England, he grew up in those years at the end of the Empire and of sailing ships before modern transport arrived. Anecdotes of his youth include the arrival of one of the first...
