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Old 1st Nov 2002, 16:48
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Arkroyal
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Not a bad programme, if a little thin.

Dwayne, when I was on a QFI course at Scampton in the late eighties, n1gger's grave was outside the CFS Bulldog squadron building. Much talk of an exhumation for end of course pranks, but we were told that the actual interment had taken place elsewhere (maybe a ploy to avoid the Navy making the biggest mistake we could have ever made - there's crab baiting, and ....well).

We were told that the actual grave was under the V-Bomber operations building, built in the fifties.

Curious, then, that the dog was, i believe, dug up and re-buried with his master in Holland a couple of years ago.

At least the Dutch appreciated the man, having lovingly tended his grave since 1944.

Gibson's own book 'enemy coast ahead' is a good read too.
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