Leaving Secondary school in 1933 he joined the well-known Dublin Bakers, Peter Kennedy & Sons as a trainee ledger clerk.
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Cedar screens divided the main chamber from the bill department and the accountant's office on one side, and the ledger clerks on the other.
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Orphaned, he started working at the General Electric Co . in London, aged 16, as a ledger clerk, before moving into the sales and finally the export department.
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In 1939 she transferred to Henley-on-Thames branch as a ledger clerk; in 1941 she was appointed secretary to the local Directors at Hanover Square branch in London.