Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Ron Greenwood a 15 Lennox Street, Worsthorne, kusa da Burnley, Lancashire, amma ya koma London a 1931 a lokacin Rikici. Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar ta Wembley County wanda yanzu ya zama wani ɓangare na Makarantar Alperton Community School a Middlesex, yana barin yana ɗan shekara 14 don zama mai koyon rubutu. Ya yi aiki tare da wani rukunin rediyo na RAF na farko a Arewacin Ireland kuma daga baya a Faransa
a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu.