Origins
Boaks was born in Walthamstow, into a naval family, and was educated at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. He served for nearly 30 years in the Royal Navy and won the Distinguished Service Cross at Dunkirk, as well as taking part in the sinking of the Bismarck while he was a gunnery officer on board HMS Rodney. He was a qualified submarine officer, a flying officer in the Fleet Air Arm, and a qualified deep-sea diver. After World War II, he was an executive officer of the Building Apprenticeship Training Council.
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