First draft obituary (short version)

After leaving Tonbridge School in 1949, Charles joined the Royal Sussex Regiment. He served in Malaya during the Emergency where he met Margie and left the Army in 1969 as a Major. He then qualified as a business man with a first in PPE from Corpus Christi Oxford. He travelled widely as a general manager and managing director of industrial multinationals in the Caribbean and the Far East. He changed careers into education and considered teaching when offered a position at Tonbridge School. Instead he headed up a British charity advising parents and recruiting headmasters and teachers for private schools. At the age of 53 when living in Malaysia, he went independent and directed consultancy projects under the name of Edukasia for over 30 clients in eight countries. He also created an educational business bringing foreign students to study in the UK through publishing, exhibitions and English language schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Mandalay. When Margie became ill, he retired to care for her, study and write. At the age of 70, they moved to Johannesburg, South Africa to enjoy their final years together and when she passed, he spent his last years in England. His interests in his early years were sports of all kinds and in particular his love of real tennis, rackets and squash being Army squash champion. Latterly even with a slipped disc, he was a single figure golfer. When he was writing, his interests included the socio-politics of Malaysia, papal history and the families of Indonesia. He had two children Andrew and Jeremy, and five grandchildren. He will finally be laid to rest in Ipoh, Malaysia with his beloved wife Margie at St Michaels Church – together forever...