Personal Life
Verity married Kathleen Alice Metcalfe, a bookbinder and the daughter of a sales agent, on 7 March 1929. The couple had known each other as children in Headingley and met again at a Rawdon youth club social event. They had two sons, first Wilfred, named after Wilfred Rhodes, and then Douglas, named after Douglas Jardine.
Shortly before the outbreak of the war, Kathleen began to suffer from poor health, and the family planned a trip to South Africa in the English winter of 1939 to aid her recovery and so Verity could take up one of several offers of a coaching job. In the last months before Verity went overseas during the war, Kathleen joined him in Omagh and later in London just before he went away.
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