DOUG HELE
Feb 05, 2020
3 minutes
Douglas ‘Doug’ Lionel Hele, was born on July 13, 1919, three years after his father had moved the family from Cornwall to Birmingham.
Men like Hele senior– formerly a gardener – flocked to the city to seek employment and the move enabled him to take up a position on the shop floor of ‘The Austin’, a company massively expanding and seeking labour as it fulfilled Government contracts – staff numbers increased almost tenfold during the hostilities.
After excelling at King’s Norton school in
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