Union Jack,
Jack,
Mea Culpa ! (and thanks for the PM). Should have replied earlier to your #126 on the "Dumbing Down..." Thread (quoting from my #123), but, as I told
Wrathmonk, I'm only a casual visitor there. But yes - Air Marshal Sir Thomas Williams had been far more than a "kindly old" gentleman in his day. One more bullet hole in his "Camel", and that might have been the end of his story.
From the standpoint of a 21-year old, mid-forties seemed then like advanced old age - just as, from where I am now, 70-year olds are nobbut lads in my book. How perceptions change !
Cheers, Danny.