Alun Trevor had a Welsh country up-bringing during the 1920s in Treuddyn, a coal-mining and farming village south of Mold, Flintshire. He was educated at the Coed Talon Elementary school and at the Alun Grammar School in Mold. After matriculation he began work with the Flintshire Education Department in 1938. He volunteered for the RAF in 1940 and began five and half years of military service. Initially based at Jesus College Cambridge within the RAF education core he was posted to Shaibah in what is now Iraq . His service in the Middle East included spells in Baghdad and Tehran . He also used his leave to tour the Holy Land . He completed his RAF service with Bomber Command's Pathfinder force and also completed his teacher training. After World War II he developed a career in education including employment with Flintshire Schools before moving to Kent where he met his wife Mary Addison. They married in 1952. At this time he also took part in an international exchange with Island Trees High School , Levittown on Long Island in the United States . He traveled widely in the Eastern United States and addressed the Utica New York Eisteddfod. On returning to the UK he moved to Malvern while continuing to study. He completed a BSc in Economics with the University of London which enabled him to broaden his teaching to economic history in secondary education. Since retiring in 1980 his main interests have been with the Clwyd Family History Society and the Chester Welsh Society. His bilingual publication Cofio Cantorion The Welsh Imperial Singers the story of their tour of Britain and North America was published in 1991 at the time of the Mold National Eisteddfod. He has written widely on historical matters for a magazines and journals including Y Faner and Ninnau. His father, Jabez Trevor, was a miner who became a professional singer with the Welsh Imperial Singers.