Percy cerutty why die

Percy was the sixth child of Harry Cerutty and his wife Emily (nee Neilson), but when he was 4 years old, Emily left her husband and struggled alone to bring up her six surviving children, possibly causing him to leave school at the age of 12 and take a job in a hardware store. As a youth he was very frail, declared unfit for military service and had an undistinguished athletic career running for the Malvern Harriers, of