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• had heart problems
• educated at home due to medical problems
• became an avid reader
• offered a place a Cambridge
• decided not to attend Cambridge after war began
• lied about his age to join the RAF
• was a navigator with Bomber Command
• rose to the rank of Flight Lieutenant
• his fiancée drove an ambulance during the war; it was hit by a bomb that killed her
• he was never married

Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was born at Pinner, Middlesex on 4 Mar 1923.

Heart problems meant he spent much of his childhood being educated at home and he became an avid reader. His mother gave him a copy of GF Chambers' book, The Story of the Solar System, and this sparked his lifelong passion for astronomy.

When war came he turned down a place at Cambridge and lied about his age to join the RAF, serving as a navigator with Bomber Command and rising to the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

But the war brought him a personal tragedy after his fiancée, Lorna, was killed when an ambulance she was driving was hit by a bomb. He never married.