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Old 9th Jul 2014, 22:55
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Xercules
 
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The Rhodes-Moorhouse Graves

Old Duffer,

I can vouch for IOT doing the good deed on those graves - I was the IOT Flt Cdr whose cadets did the cleaning. We were on our way to go shark fishing in Cornwall (herrings were the only sharks we caught though). If memory serves there were 2 old ladies who used to look after the graves but it was getting beyond them. They were delighted with our efforts and lent us some pictures and reports to go in the Project Report.

Time has flown by as it was actually in September 1980, on 45 IOT Cse, my second but first at Cranwell. The Project being Shark Fishing was the result of having a Marine Branch cadet on the Flight and a Sqn Cdr who was also Marine Branch. Our visit to the graves was as a sort of quid pro quo to be allowed to go so far afield.
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