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John only recalls one school friend at Balham Grammar Schiol -- Havard Rose. They were neigbors and played sports together. A family snapshot shows the boys together in John's back garden (yard). They are wearing their school cricket uniforms. It is not colored but does include the cap as well as the jacket and matching belt. Of course all wirn with cricket whites. The snapshot is interesting bcause it also shows shows where John lived. We can see that mum liked to garden, which was important during the War, but did not yet have a washing machine. Actually that is revealing. By the time of World War II, Amerivans families commionly had amenities like cars, refrigerators, and washing machines. Briitain was the most affluent country in Europe. Such amenities were even less common on the Continent. This meant that the industrial base in Europe was much smaller than than the American industrial base. As a result, after Pearl Harbor (1941), American turned that huge indistrial base toward war and Germany and Japan would be swaped with American military production.
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