Biography Of Frank Norman
Biography Of Frank Norman
On the 18th September 1923, Frank Norman was born a son to Clarence and Louie Norman. At that time, Adolf Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putch” in Munich fails, sending him to prison, a German Shepard becomes the first canine film star, an earthquake destroys 2 thirds of Tokyo and a whooping cough vaccine had been developed.
Clarence Norman owned a sweet shop, giving Frank an almost perfect start to life. How can you go wrong with an assortment of thousands of different sweets downstairs! You can imagine the stories that brought up. There were the ones about throwing up after eating too many sweets, of course, and the ones about him and his friends sneaking down after dark to eat. When his dad got a new job at the water board, he was in tears. It took him a good week to get over losing the novelty of living over a sweet shop.
However, he carried on with life, and joined the boy’s brigade. He had the idea from “the day he was born” to be able to fight in the army, and this was the closest he could get at the age of 10. In 1935, he had something, or someone else to worry about. His parents had a little girl, called Vera. She was the pride and joy of his family, but, less than a year later, she died very suddenly. This was down to heart failure, or a heart murmur, he was never told properly, because he was “too young to understand”. He didn’t really remember her very well, and learnt to forget, because it was such a tragedy.
He got a place at a highly commended grammar school, Hampton grammar school. At this school he was able to get the qualifications he needed to earn the money he needed.
After he left school, he started to work at York House, in an accounts department. This was where he was to meet the love of his life, Elona Heavey. This relationship was suddenly cut off however, after the outbreak of war. He deserted her for the army. He even lied about his age, getting in a year early, at the age of 17. Chosen for officer, sent off to an officer training camp and that was where Frank was prepared for WW2. However, Frank blew his chances of going straight to war, for the most stupid reason. During...