Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Templeman i te 3 o Poutu-te-rangi 1920, te tama a Herbert William Templeman (he kaihokohoko waro) me tana wahine a Lilian née Pheasant. I whakaakona ia i te Kura Tuatahi o Southall me te Whare Wananga o St John, Cambridge, i reira ia i ako ai, i panui ai i te hitori. Na te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i aukati i ana akoranga. I te tau 1941, i tukuna ia ki roto i te 4 Gorkha Rifles, a ka kite ia i te mahi i te Northwest Frontier, i Arakan
, Imphal, me Burma. Mo tana mahi i te wa o te pakanga, i whakahuatia ia i roto i nga panui, a i whakakorehia ia hei rangatira honore, a, i muri mai ka tohua he MBE mo tana mahi pakanga.