Pawn Shop Dick - Softcover

Fear, Mr Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519706561 ISBN 13: 9781519706560

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Pawn Shop Dick is a fascinating autobiography of the truly amazing life of Ray Fear told with candour and spiced with wit and humour. Follow this rare opportunity to travel and share in his many different adventures at the Tower of London as a Grenadier Guard, through World War II and as a book maker for over 30 years. Ray was conceived in the Tower of London and at a young age was caught throwing conkers at the, then future, Queen only to be reprimanded 15 years later for throwing bread rolls at Princess Elizabeth II on her visit to Chelsea Barracks. After moving around London he found himself in Falmouth in Cornwall where he became one of the main attractions at the circus before moving back to London and then finally to Brighton, Sussex by the Sea, where he and his family managed to live rent-free in a number of boarding houses. The regular bombings of Brighton enabled him to leave school aged 13 when he entered his first job at a pawn shop before increasing his age to enable him to enter his father's old army infantry regiment, The Grenadier Guards. During preparation for The Guards, Ray spent 8 weeks becoming a trained assassin at Windsor Barracks competent in the use of 9 weapons before, to his horror, being sent to Catterick Camp in Yorkshire to train as a driver-gunner of the 40 ton Churchill tank. After completing training, Ray travelled to France to join the 4th Battalion Grenadiers, part of the 6th Guards Independent Brigade, and to Germany at Kiel, Koln, Vogelsang, Hamburg, Eisenstein, Rheinbach where he guarded 6000 German officers at the Neuengamme German death camp, and he finished the war at Lubeck. Credited as 'Smartest man on parade' before disgracing himself two days later at the docks of Coxhaven, drunk and disorderly, Ray headed back to London Chelsea barracks where he continued to live a highly unorthodox life. Ray built his own bookmaking business employing office workers and 60 bookies collecting thousands of bets daily while also acting as a

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1519706561
• ISBN 13: 9781519706560
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 294
• Illustrator: Bullock Mr John E