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Old 5th February 2026 | 20:53
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tamjk
 
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Nothing much.

I know of his relentless work for Thain from other sources.

I believe that he died rather young, say in the '70s or early '80s. Not unusual for the RAF's glorious generation - the strains of WW2 and the hard years of post-war work took their toll on these chaps.

You know, the problem one has with these chaps is that each and every one of them was quite remarkable: heroic, self-sacrificing, modest to a fault, kind and would run a mile from any sort of public fuss about them.

So to ask one of this generation to provide biographical detail on another would hardly produce much that would show them as anything other than what they were: ordinary chaps dragooned into national defence from their late teens and living a much quieter though no less heroic life thereafter.

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