RON WATSON

As a Royal Engineer, Ron, from Warboys, Cambs, was 19 when he was in Operation Grapple. Within two years, he had lost all his teeth. A decade later he had a tumour on his thyroid. He spent months in a military hospital, and had to urinate in a specimen jar every day with a radiation symbol on it. But no urine analysis is on his medical notes. He says: “I should be given those records.” Ron’s wife had two stillbirths, while his daughter also had a thyroid tumour.