Found this old shot of my father with his parents

I never met my father's parents because they had passed on before I was born. In fact, my grandfather died just a few months before my birth and as a consequence my father decided to name me after him.

Samuel & Sarah were from Poland but the First World War drove them to America. So my father, Harry, was born in Chicago.

He was posted in the Philippines during the Second World War to fight the Japanese, but decided to stay on after the war and built 17 corporations which revolutionised the country.

He was an astute businessman but lived a bit of a 'Playboy' lifestyle (with four marriages and ten children) and must have seemed odd to his parents who lived a very different kind of life back in Poland.

My two sisters and I are from wife number three, an English nurse he met in Thailand when she was barely twenty years old, 35 years younger than him.

We saw him only a few times a year when he would visit the UK with lots of presents for us and it was a slightly fatherless kind of childhood.

Though we never judged him for this.

Even when he married for the fourth time.