By the time the Allies won the war, Neve was famed as a hero.

He didn't really want to bang on about himself.

I had trouble when I asked him various questions.

He'd gloss over them.

And I never really got to know exactly.

I usually had to find out in other ways, either from other people or from his books, I suppose.

It always sounds rather surprising that you have to read up about your father in a book.

With just over a month to go until that election, on the 30th of March 1979, Neve's daughter, Marigold, was having lunch with some friends.