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Richard Todd 1941.
Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd was born in Dublin in 1919, the son of a Royal Army Medical Corps officer who was also an Irish rugby international. After an early childhood in India, he attended Shrewsbury School before forsaking an expected army career for the stage. After attending the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, he acted in the theatre and as an extra in films. Todd enlisted soon after the outbreak of war and entered Sandhurst in late 1940. On 29th January 1941, he was one of 26 cadets injured when D Block of New College was hit by a German bomb. In his
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