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Born in Simla, India, on 31 March 1919, the only son of Major Charles Palgrave Woodward of Reading, Robert was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, before coming up to Corpus where he achieved a 1st in Latin, French, German, History in 1939: he was also Secretary of the Oxford University Squash Club and a Squash Blue in 1938 and 1939. He married Virginia [Stair] and they had a daughter. He served in 1940-1942 as a member of 263 Squadron.