Lyndon Rowland obituary

My uncle, Lyndon Rowland, who has died aged 88, was a Korean war veteran and keen sportsman.

Lyn was born in Newport, Gwent, to Violet (nee Smith) and George Rowland. He was the youngest of 12 children, only seven of whom survived to adulthood, among them my father, Roy. They grew up above the family fish and chip shop on Corporation Road. Lyn's duties included peeling potatoes before school each morning and collecting fresh fish from Newport railway station. He would cycle home with pallets of hake and plaice balanced on his handlebars.