Almae Matres
JENKINS (your #8599),
Thanks for the head-up ! Got it on Google (skinflint !).
So: Sqdn Ldr Owen Parry, DFC (RIP). Another good one gone ! (seek not for whom the bell tolls..)
Didn't come into contact with 11 Sqdn, but had been posted out of Assam back to 8 Sqdn in the Arakan before the big Jap offensive. His "airfield on the Imphal Plain" might be Palel. Owen could have been at Blackpool Grammar at the same time as Reg Levy, whom we know well on this Thread; we may have been on the opposite sides of a scrum ! Yes, I was at "Holy Joe's", as you rightly surmise. "Joe's Jailhouse" - hadn't heard that one before, but not a bad description - except that our poor parents had to pay through the nose for it !
Danny.