J. F. Duff
From Graces Guide
John Francis Duff (1895-1958)
John Duff was born in Kiukiang, China. His parents were Canadians from Hamilton, Ontario who established a commercial outpost in nearby Kuling.
Duff was sent to Hamilton for a good Victorian education. He lived there until he was sixteen.
1912 Duff was back in Kuling. When war was declared in 1914, he travelled across Russia to England, where he joined the army. Gravely wounded at the Third Battle of Ypres, he was sent to a hospital in England where he met and married his nurse.
1919 Learned how to drive a car and became a dealer.
1920 Began his racing career at Brooklands and drove a Fiat S.61, a 10-litre chain-driven car built in 1908.
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