George Roland Parvin was born 20 July 1917 and died in 27th December 1997 aged 80

George Roland Parvin was a director of IPC Business Press (Sales & Distribution) Ltd. and was made a MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honour list in June 1982.

He had 3 children, 5 grand children and 1 great grandson.

He served during the Second World War during which he was captured and made a POW

Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...

  by the Japanese. His experiences were told in his book Yasumai! (1958, Digit Books). He also wrote many of the stories for the War Picture Library

War Picture Library

War Picture Library was a British 64-page Pocket library war comic title published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway for 2103 issues...

comic series in the late '50s\early 60's