Originally Posted by
RetiredBA/BY
My experience:
Some years ago I was staying with friends in Kent. A local and his wife were invited to join us for dinner. Turned out he had been a VERY distinguished Air Marshal. On meeting him and saying how wonderful it was to meet him and using his rank to address him( his wartime ops. were incredible. )
NO said he, please call me Bob, I am no longer IN the RAF, we were both pilots.
For the rest of the evening he treated me, a retired Flt Lt, as if I were his favourite son, marvellous.
Visitors to the RAF club will see a room dedicated to him.
Love stories like this. A true gent clearly. Slight Thread Drift. A mate of mine has a QGM and never mentions it.
TN.