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I was a schoolboy during the war and, in 1947, joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman, retiring as a Lieutenant-Commander after 42 years' service.
In the war, my father was the Manager of one of the two Dynatron factories at Maidenhead, making radar and other equipment for our bombers.
At elementary school, I learned about the basics of explosives and their uses and, at grammar school, joined the Army Cadet Force and learned how to use a rifle and about the use of the Sten Gun and grenades.
In the Navy, I extended that training to learn how to use a pistol and a sub-machine gun and went on to compete in many rifle (.22 and .303) competitions, as well as pistol and sub-machine gun competitions involving the Bren gun and the Sten gun or its naval equivalent, the Lanchester.