Deryck Guyler

Guyler was born in Wallasey on the Wirral Peninsula Cheshire and brought up on the other side of the River Mersey in Liverpool Lancashire where his father was a jeweller He attended Liverpool College and originally planned a career in the church During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association ENSA and then on 4 May 1942 the BBCs Drama and Repertory company in Manchester