Early Career
Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland. While there he became involved with the forces radio station. Also while stationed in Iceland — as he describes in his memoirs A Kentish Lad — Muir suffered a spontaneous medical condition requiring the surgical removal of one testicle.
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