![]() ![]() He served until 1921 with the infantry, where he was commissioned into the Green Howards, and in the Royal Flying Corps as an equipment officer, including a spell on HMS Valiant.Īfter the war, he travelled in Europe and South America. During three days and nights in a shell hole, he incurred further injuries from shrapnel. ![]() ![]() He was then shot by an enemy stretcher party and lost his right eye. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 within 20 yards of the German front line. The First World War interrupted his education at Croydon High School, and he enlisted in 1915 in the Public Schools Battalion of the 16th Middlesex Regiment at the age of 17. McCulloch was born in Plymouth, Devon, the youngest child of (William) Lionel Breashur McCulloch and his wife, Bertha Russell. He was the head of children's broadcasting for the BBC from 1933 until 1951. He became known as " Uncle Mac" on Children's Hour and Children's Favourites. Head of children's broadcasting for the BBCĭerek Ivor Breashur McCulloch OBE (18 November 1897 – 1 June 1967) was a BBC Radio producer and presenter. ![]()
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