Dee ihe na-esote paragraf a - A mụrụ Templeman na 3 Machị 1920, nwa Herbert William Templeman (onye na-azụ ahịa kol) na nwunye ya Lilian née Pheasant. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Southall Grammar School na St John's College, Cambridge, ebe ọ bụ ọkà mmụta ma gụọ akụkọ ihe mere eme. Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ gbochiri ọmụmụ ihe ya. N'afọ 1941, e nyere ya ọrụ n'ime ndị Gorkha Rifles anọ, ma hụ ọrụ na Northwest Frontier, na Arakan
, Imphal, na Burma. Maka ozi oge agha ya, a kpọtụrụ ya aha n'ozi, ma wepụ ya n'ọrụ dịka onye isi ndị agha, ma mesịa họpụta MBE maka ọrụ agha ya.