Patrick Ryan (author and journalist) then transferred to The Fourth Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He moved to Leeds in the 1950s as Assistant Head Postmaster, and his "apprenticeship" in adapting to Yorkshire life is related in his humorous memoir "How I Became A Yorkshireman", published in the late 1960s. He later became Head Postmaster at Harrogate and was a regular contributor for "Punch" and The New Scientist in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as writing several television plays and some episodes of "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge" both
Barry Took Barry Took Barry Took (19 June 192831 March 2002) was an English writer, television presenter and comedian. His decade and a half writing partnership with Marty Feldman led to the television series "Bootsie and Snudge" and the radio comedy "Round the Horne" and other projects. He is also remembered in the UK for presenting "Points of View", a BBC Television programme featuring viewers' letters on the BBC's output, and the BBC Radio 4 programme "The News Quiz". The son of a manager at the Danish Bacon Company, Took was born somewhere between the boroughs of Muswell Hill and Wood Green,