Tennyson Macaulay’s life, Yarrow thought, reading a brief summary, had not been particularly distinguished. He was born in 1923 in a small village some twelve miles from Montego Bay, Jamaica, and at the beginning of the war, he saw an opportunity to escape a life of poverty in Jamaica and had answered a call to arms, just one of 16,000 West Indians who volunteered for service. After serving in the Middle East and Italy with the Caribbean Regiment, he decided to remain in England after his honourable discharge from the Army.
He settled in Nottingham, met and married his wife Marlena, renting a terrace house in the Radford Road district of the city. They had two children, son Byron and daughter Shelley, seemingly followed a family practice of naming children after prominent poets.
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