Complex sentence: Peter Wildeblood was born in Alassio, on the Italian Riviera, in 1923, son of a retired engineer with the Indian Public Works Department, then secretary of a local tennis club; and the daughter of an Argentinian sheep-rancher.
Split into simpler sentences: Peter Wildeblood was born in Alassio, on the Italian Riviera, in 1923. He was the son of a retired engineer from the Indian Public Works Department; and the daughter of an Argentinian sheep-rancher.