Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Templeman a ranar 3 ga Maris, 1920, ɗan Herbert William Templeman (dan kasuwar kwal) da matarsa Lilian née Pheasant. Ya yi karatu a Southall Grammar School da St John's College, Cambridge, inda ya kasance masanin kuma ya karanta Tarihi. An katse karatunsa ta yakin duniya na biyu. A 1941, an ba shi izini a cikin Gorkha Rifles 4, kuma ya ga aikin a Arewa maso Yammacin Frontier, a Arakan
, Imphal, da kuma Burma. Don hidimarsa ta yaƙi, an ambace shi a cikin wasiku, kuma an cire shi a matsayin Manjo mai daraja, sannan daga baya aka nada shi MBE don hidimarsa ta yaƙi.