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Old 31st Aug 2015, 18:49
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As an aside, there is an amusing tale of one Fg Off H Dennison, although at the time he felt his career had taken a real nose dive. At the end of 1985 there was a service held at St Clement Danes which required the 28 (ac) Sqn Standard to be paraded. Hunter was the Standard Bearer and along with one escort FS B J******s they set off from Sek Kong. Now that was in the days when the charter was B Cal staging through Dubai into Gatwick. At Kai Tak as is the custom they watched the Standard being loaded onto the aircraft before taking their seats. At Dubai they had to enter the transit lounge and stay there before resuming their onward journey. What could go wrong!!!! You guessed it on arrival Gatwick, no Standard. Of course the handlers at Dubai just had to take it off and somehow forgot to put it back on. Luck prevailed and 24 hrs later and just before it was needed it caught up but for a moment Hunter thought he would always be known as the man who lost the Squadron Standard
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