My father-in-law, Terence Williams, known as Taff, who has died aged 93, was a modest man who reached the top of his profession as an RAF pilot, despite having to leave school aged 14.
Born in the village of Cymmer in the Rhondda Valley, Taff was the son of Edith (nee Harding) and Harry Williams, a drayman in charge of the stable at the Thomas and Evans factory in Porth. They moved to Bristol for Harry’s work before being bombed out of their home in 1942 and having to move again, to Raglan, Monmouthshire. Taff had passed the scholarship to attend Monmouth school, but financial pressures meant he had to leave and start work as a farm labourer.
