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Lawrence Gullery/Stuff Clive Meddings holding a picture book his daughter Selina made for his 90th birthday. The picture to the left is of him as he went away to war. Meddings was born in Hull, England, when his parents were there visiting family. They returned to New Zealand and he was one of six siblings who grew up in Levin. Meddings didn’t care much for school and “couldn’t wait to get out of it”. He worked for a few years at a grocery shop before war broke out in Europe, for a second time. “I was 18 when I signed up to go to war. I had to put my age up a bit so I told them I was 21. ....