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Old 23rd Jan 2021, 14:18
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Nil_Drift
 
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Just prior to leaving the RAF on redundancy in 1996, I attended a resettlement course at Catterick and stayed in the Mess at RAF Leeming. There was a thoroughly decent, much older, chap on the course who, on asking his name, replied "Win".
We commuted together for the next two weeks in his Rover SD1 and helped each other in our new found hobby of Furniture Restoration. It was only in much later conversation with a Kipper Fleet (18 Gp) mate that I discovered who he was. Air Marshal Sir John Harris, KCB, CBE was still AOC 18 Gp at the time but was evidently readying himself for civilian life in all respects. Maximum respect!
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