On Christmas Eve in 1944, as London was hit by the intense bombing of the “Baby Blitz”, John Moore was left abandoned on the street. Just days old, he was picked up by a policeman and taken to St Thomas’s Hospital – but his origins and details of his family remained a mystery.
Four years later, he was adopted into a loving family in Kennington, south London, where he lived a “happy” childhood. Between school and helping his neighbours with their market stalls on weekends, his busy life left little time for wondering where he had come from.
