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Kenneth Thomas Webb (born 1954) lives in Gloucestershire and is a retired Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives (1982-2010) in which he practised law in probate and trust administration. He also served in the Gloucestershire Constabulary between 1970-1981, and held the Queen's Commission for 17 years (1974-1991) in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 2006-2009 Webb owned and edited both the Liverpool Scene and Liverpool CityLife lifestyles magazines in Liverpool. He also publishes anthologies and short stories in his author name Ian Bradley Marshall, this commencing during his time in Liverpool (2003-2017) and with which city he continues his very close links. In September 2009, in his author name, he published 'Idle Thoughts, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose' through Spiderwize, and following its success, published 'Meanderings, An Anthology of Poetry and prose' in October 2011.

An active member of the LGBTQI+, the then Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester approached him in his author name, with a request to consider writing about the Holocaust from the Gay and Lesbian perspective. What followed is the heartrending 'They Came in the Night' which had its first reading in Manchester on 27 January 2011 as part of the City's International Holocaust Memorial Day Commemmoration, and which was then published in Meanderings.

Webb was surprised when he was asked by well-meaning colleagues to remove some pieces from his work as they leaned towards being gay. Never one to flinch in the face of homophobia, he tackled it head on by taking all of the pieces causing disquiet amongst religious and conservative-minded communities, and in Liverpool, which city is a constant source of inspiration and support to him both as Kenneth Thomas Webb and as Ian Bradley Marshall, and publishing them in July 2013 through AuthorHouse with the double-decker bus title 'Being Gay being Bi Whatever'. He laughs now at recalling the request to perhaps change the title to 'Whatever'.

Webb has now returned to his home county of Gloucestershire where, as a very active member of Probus, he chaired the Cheltenham Regency Probus before, through and after the pandemic, holding the large membership together by publishing bi-weekly and later weekly on-line lifestyle article for the branch's membership.

Webb owns two websites https://kennwebb.com/ and also an aviation website https://www.eyestotheskies.uk/

Sources https://www.eyestotheskies.uk/news/76-squadron-raf-linton-on-ouse-16-17-april-1943-operation-frothblower-and-operation-chubb https://www.eyestotheskies.uk/news/frothblower-and-chubb-plzen-mannheim-1943 https://www.eyestotheskies.uk/news/raf-hiding-in-plain-sight https://www.eyestotheskies.uk/news/raf-lachen-spayerdorf-english-version

Webb writes informally on both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Flying Corps, these being on the aviation website.

The initials KEW refer to his father's brother Sergeant-Pilot Kenneth Ernest Webb 1315766 RAFVR who was killed in action in April 1943 on Operation Frothblower. His author name is in honour of his mother's brother, his mother granting him permission to use her maternal surname, Pathfinder Flight Sergeant Flight Engineer Harry Alfred Marshall 1337884 RAFVR (substantive rank Sergeant) who was also killed in action in January 1945 on Operation Zeitz-Magdeburg.