Ernest George Spiller
Ernest George Spiller was born on 21st August 1923 and grew up in Hambledon at Fairfield Cottages, East Street, the son of George and Daisy Spiller. His father worked as a cowman and during the Second World War also served locally with the Royal Observer Corps, part of Britain’s home air-defence network. Ernest’s childhood therefore belonged to a generation that came of age entirely during wartime. By 1939 he was working as a painter, a typical village trade, and still living at home with his parents and younger sister.