The contributors' father Harold Hickton served in the Navy and met his wife Catalina in Gibraltar, where she was from, while he was serving. They married in Gibraltar and then moved to Coventry together. Harold joined the Navy in 1937 and served for 12 years in Italy, Africa, and the Atlantic on a number of ships, including the HMS Victory. He volunteered for blaster and medical testing while he served as a Chief Stoker. Catalina found the move to Britain very difficult as she spoke Spanish.

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