Early Life
He is of Chinese-English parentage. His father was a Yorkshire engineer who worked in Malaysia where he met and married Underwood's Chinese-Malay mother.
He was educated at Barnard Castle School (with fellow rugby international Rob Andrew and infamous MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson), followed by initial officer training at RAF College Cranwell.
His early life was spent in Malaysia. His family moved to Yorkshire, but his father continued to work in Malaysia.
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