He was eighteen when he was sent to the Chemical Weapons Research Centre at Porton Down.
Porton Down, once so shrouded in secrecy that very few knew what went on within its fences.
The promise of a week's leave encouraged him to volunteer for Porton Down.
The men had volunteered for experiments at the government's chemical warfare research base at Porton Down in Wiltshire in 1953 and 1954.
The Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory at Porton Down, is providing diagnostic support to clinical teams to help them handle suspected anthrax cases.
Today, the two men are among hundreds who claim that their chronic health problems are linked to the trials they underwent at Porton Down.
It is understood that Britain obtained samples from inside Syria that have been tested by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.
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But police are investigating allegations that Maddison, and others, were tricked into going to Porton with assurances that they were doing research into the common cold.
The men volunteered to be "guinea pigs" at the government research base Porton Down after being told scientists wanted to find a cure for the common cold.
The Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, at Porton Down in Salisbury, is the only place in the world that can manufacture a licensed vaccine against anthrax.
But the discovery of stockpiles of the far more deadly German nerve gas, left in Europe after the Second World War, pushed Porton Down into a race against time.
The report says that no cases of laboratory infections had been detected at the Porton Down labs in 1966, while other safety activities were "too trivial to deserve special mention".
Porton was established during the First World War for chemical weapons research, and it relied heavily on volunteers from the armed forces to become what has been described as human guinea pigs.
But Porton has become the focus of attention recently because of a police investigation into the death nearly forty-seven years ago of a young serviceman, Ronald Maddison, who'd taken part in tests here.
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