Early Life
Patrick Joseph Caulfield was born on 29 January 1936 in Acton, west London. During the second world war Caulfield's family lived in Bolton as his father worked at De Havilland. Leaving Acton secondary modern school at the age of 15, Caulfield secured a position at Crosse & Blackwell as a filing clerk and later transferred to their design studio, working on food display and carrying out menial tasks around the studio. At 17, he joined the Royal Air Force at RAF Northwood, pre-empting requirement for national service at the time and inspired by the 1952 film Moulin Rouge about the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, he spent his free time during this period attending evening classes at Harrow School of Art (now part of the University of Westminster).
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