His first novel, The Man From The Bomb (1959), was sold to John Spencer for £25, all rights. He spent his evenings writing, selling a story to the Lady magazine in 1953. Demobbed in 1946, he became a salesman, firstly at Harrods, and then at the Army & Navy Stores and Bourne & Hollingsworth, before joining Peerless Build-In Furniture as a showroom and exhibition manager. With the outbreak of the second world war, he joined the Middlesex Regiment, and was evacuated from Dunkirk, later returning to France on D-Day in the Normandy landings. His father, Henry, was a movie theatre manager, and Ronald became an enthusiastic film fan, appearing as an extra in several prewar films, including A Yank At Oxford (1938) and Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939). Chetwynd-Hayes was born in Isleworth, Middlesex, and educated locally at Hanworth school.
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