John Neville Davies (Born 1935) states that he began to collect stamps on 2 September 1940 when his mother paid a bill for £2 and received a receipt bearing a stamp from the British Postal Centenary set of that year which showed both Queen Victoria and King George VI.
Davies became interested in Libyan stamps while carrying out his national service in Libya[REF] between 1954 and 1956, though he bought little material at that time.