Cambridge, Philip., 1918-1933

Born on 2nd June 1918 in Cheddar Philip Cambridge grew up in Cardiff. He was a boyhood fossil collector and he quickly acquired an impressive collection. He started work as a window dresser in a womens clothes shop after some short-lived positions after leaving elementary school.

He then entered the RAF as an apprentice and served as a filter-armourer, maintaining nuclear missiles at secret sites in East Anglia. Whilst inactive he spent time reading widely pursuing his correspondence and cataloguing his collection of fossils and producing a unique card index of descriptions and figures of Crag fossils.

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