Rowland Molony
Rowland Molony was the first of five children born to a Dutch mother and the Wing Commander who was billeted in her father’s house at the end of the Second World War. After school, he spent some years in the RAF, one of them on a desert airfield with a white fort at Sharjah, near Dubai. Later he left the military and went to University to study Literature and Philosophy, before becoming an English teacher. He spent eight eventful years in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe, where he met and married Elizabeth Baxendale, had two daughters, Emma and Susie, and became caught up in the bush war of independence.