Brett

But Beryl was pregnant.

That was true.

And she did want to have an abortion.

But Tim didn't need to go to the cafe to find someone to help him.

He had someone much closer.

His downstairs neighbor.

The middle-aged postal clerk, John Reginald

Christy, remember the downstairs neighbor?

The one who's a postal clerk.

He's a former cop.

The one who he and his wife heard that thump the night before Tim ran off to Wales.

Well, now Tim is saying, hey, I didn't have to meet any man in a cafe.

John Reginald Christy.

decided to help me out.

According to Tim, Christy had heard about his plight and offered to help.

In addition to being a police officer and a postal clerk, he had received medical training during the Second World War.

Christy was one of those people who had a lot of health issues, so he wasn't someone who was going to go off and fight.

And so there were a lot of people who were in the home guard, who were sort of older men or maybe men who had health issues who couldn't really serve.

But everybody was involved in the war.

I mean, it was a complete mobilization of the entire population to fight the Second World War.