Travelled miles away, found a local author.

We used to live in Hythe, Kent, on the site of a one time small arms training school. The site closed in the 1960's & was redeveloped. My wife's parents lived in Nova Scotia, Canada. We went out there for a visit in the early 1990's. On our first outing we visited a tourist attraction, I spotted a bookstall & went to have a look. The very first book that I picked up was entitled Hangman's Beach. That looks like it might be a good read, I thought. Turned it over to look at the back for plot/author info, to read that the author was born in Hythe, Kent. I later found out, that his father was a small arms instructor & had been based at the very school, the site of which I was living at, at the time. The author's name was Thomas Head Raddall. When he was about ten years old, in 1913, his father applied for & got a posting to the Canadian army to instruct in small arms.