Andrew Flower B.E.M.

Andrew Flower was born in Rothwell near Leeds and after a brief apprenticeship joined the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers at the age of 18. After serving 22 years in Germany, Canada, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Saudi Arabia, he left the Army and worked as a Trials and Development engineer, for a large defence company, working on armoured vehicles until retirement. His main hobbies are camping, swimming and playing the guitar. He has two children and four grandchildren and lives with his wife in Telford, Shropshire.