Editing Max Wall (section)

==Early years==
Wall was born Maxwell George Lorimer, son of the successful [[music hall]] entertainer [[Jack Lorimer|Jack (Jock) Lorimer]], a [[Scotland|Scottish]] comedy actor from [[Forfar]], known for his songs and dancing, and his wife Stella (born Maud Clara Mitchison). He was born near [[the Oval]], at 37 Glenshaw Mansions, [[Brixton Road]], [[Lambeth]], London SW9. In 1916, during a [[World War I]] air raid, Max and his elder brother Alex were saved from death by a cast-iron bed frame, but his younger brother Bunty and their Aunt Betty, who was looking after them, were killed by a bomb dropped from a [[Germany|German]] [[Zeppelin]] which also destroyed their house.<ref name="maxwallsociety">{{cite web |title=Max's Life |url=http://www.maxwallsociety.org/page3.html |website=Max Wall Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513050153/http://www.maxwallsociety.org/page3.html |archive-date=13 May 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Max and Alex went to live with their father and his family, whilst their mother went to live with Harry Wallace, whom she had met on tour. When their father died of [[tuberculosis]] in 1920, aged 37, their mother married Harry Wallace, and they all moved to a pub in [[Essex]].<ref>An Audience with Max Wall – BBC Radio 4 – first broadcast 3 December 2007</ref>