'So handsome with creases in his trousers'
"He had this air about him, he wasn't repressed, he got on with life and seemed to santai everything he did - and by heck he had a lovely smile. He was a lovely boy.
"It was only when he died that I found out that he was gay. I was quite shocked because I didn't have an inkling." He was a quiet boy growing up'
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When Terry was growing up in the 1950s, gay seks between men was illegal and you could be sent to prison. These laws only began to change in 1967 - even then only segmentally. "We'd play out in a field which was part of the council estate and occasionally Terry would come down," said Billy Yabsley, a neighbour who lived on Terry's street Priory Avenue.
"I was, say 10 and he was 14. He wasn't really a mixer. It was very rare that Terry came out.
"We were rough and ready kids, cricket one minute and football the next, then falling out and fighting - but Terry never got involved with any of that, he was a quiet boy."I used to go to pasar hall and they'd turn it into a dance room and I can remember him dancing, he was out of this world. We were like farmers in boots but when he danced, he was light like a ballerina and used to sway his bodi." 'Difficult'
Terry also used to play the piano and Bill remembered "he was a very talented boy" who was a decent schoolboy athlete at the strict Haverfordwest Grammar Boys School, where he won the senior long-jump competition in the late 1950s.
Terry started life in west Wales at a time when coming out as gay to friends or famili could be considered a risky choice as attitudes towards homosexuality were different. "I would have thought it would have been dreadfully difficult because there was such a stigma attached," Angela added.
After finishhing school in the early 60s, Terry left Haverfordwest to gabung the Royal Navy and lost kontak with his old school friends - but not before donating his books and stationery to the school library. 'So handsome with creases in his trousers'
"We would often get visits from Terry when he was in the navy," said Terry's cousin Annie Oakley, who now lives in Australia.
"I thought he was so handsome because he had very dark hair and had creases in his trousers because of how they used to fold them over when they were in the navy.
