John Harry North
John Harry North was born in 1918 and spent his childhood in his Jewish family home in a small town in Czechoslovakia. He passed the examinations at the Gymnasium at age 18 (Abitur). When Austria and the Sudetenland were occupied by the Germans (1938), North escaped to Holland and came to England as a student. When the air attacks on London began in 1940, he joined the Rescue Service of Bermondsey and two years later he joined the RAF as trainee pilot. He changed his name from Jan Neuburg to...See more
John Harry North was born in 1918 and spent his childhood in his Jewish family home in a small town in Czechoslovakia. He passed the examinations at the Gymnasium at age 18 (Abitur). When Austria and the Sudetenland were occupied by the Germans (1938), North escaped to Holland and came to England as a student. When the air attacks on London began in 1940, he joined the Rescue Service of Bermondsey and two years later he joined the RAF as trainee pilot. He changed his name from Jan Neuburg to John North. At the end of the war, he travelled to Chile where he joined the British airline (BSAA) as Traffic Officer. He returned to England in 1958 and remained with BOAC-BA as Project Manager in the IT department. North studied at evening classes and gained a Diploma in Archaeology at London University in 1970. After retirement (1983), he studied Classical Civilisation at Birkbeck College in 1996 and obtained an MA. He continued studying Classics at Holloway University but changed to the Linguistics Department of Queen Mary, University of London where he gained his Doctorate in Philosophy. See less
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