Kevin Coulter was born in Dalton near Barrow-in-Furness in 1930. He became ill with osteomyelitis, a serious bone infection, and was treated in the Ethel Hedley Children's Hospital, near Windermere. He befriended Mendel Plater, one of the Jewish children brought to Windermere, who was a patient in an adjoining bed.

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