Bernard Meadows - Early Life

Early Life

He was educated at the City of Norwich School and Norwich School of Art and became Henry Moore's first assistant. In the Second World War he initially registered as a conscientious objector, but when Germany invaded the USSR in 1941 he withdrew his objection. He was called up to the Royal Air Force and served in the Cocos Islands.

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