TO USE the modern parlance, I felt somewhat ‘triggered’ by the recent TCW article entitled ‘No whites please – we’re the RAF’. It led to my writing this brief tale.
On November 20 1919, Edward Morton Hunter was born in a tenement in Rutherglen Road in Glasgow’s Gorbals district to a catering worker mother and a foundry-worker father. The father, also Edward Hunter, had served 12 years in the Royal Navy, principally aboard the destroyer Scorpion and the cruiser Berwick and had seen active service in the Dardanelles during the Great War. Leaving the Navy that year the ex-Chief Petty Officer Hunter sought what work he could find in industrial Glasgow south of the Clyde. Tragically he died aged 30 when Edward was just a few months old.
