When I Was Twelve: A wartime childhood

Would his father ever come home?

The true story of an entire childhood lived under the shadow of war.

Born in 1933, Nick Hutchins was just six years old when his father left for the Second World War.

By the time the war ended, he was twelve years old and almost a man.

At 90 years of age, Nick remembers his wartime childhood in vivid detail, like it was yesterday, and reflects on the impact of growing up without his father.

Lieutenant Colonel CDM Hutchins, known as Tim, served in the British Army...