He eventually returned to Maidstone, the town of his birth, and during the Second World War he ran his local Home Guard unit as he had been deemed unfit to serve in the forces. He honed his writing skills, whenever he had a moment to spare, in the various dressing rooms that he found himself in. He also acted in plays produced at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead, where he lived for a time. This keen interest in the theatre led him to join the Lena Ashwell Players as stage manager and he took their productions around the country. After that he spent several years as games master at St Christopher School in Letchworth where he also led the school's dramatic activities. He was born in 1901 and, as a boarder, he attended Mill Hill School, leaving in 1919 and moving on to Cheltenham where he attended a secretarial college and where he learned to type. John Bude was a pseudonym used by Ernest Carpenter Elmore who was a British born writer.
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