Son of James Kinnear Randle and Orynthia Millicent Randle, of St. Leonards, South Australia. He was born on January 9th, 1919, at Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia and entered Grey House in January, 1932. At the outbreak of war he was in Australia and received his training there before being posted to the Middle East. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour