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Princess Margaret visited St Mawgan on 21 July 1972 as this extract from the Court Circular shows, so perhaps it was on this visit?
Seem unlikely-1st Nimrod R was delivered to Wyton in JUL 71 and spent over 2 years being fitted out. Next flew OCT 73. Perhaps it just looked like an R after the mad boom was left on the runway. ?
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Could have been anything really as I don't remember even being there.
Still it seems that the story may not be just beer talk. Thanks to all the responses.
Still it seems that the story may not be just beer talk. Thanks to all the responses.
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Now that is a proper Officers name......
Lt Col Burnaby-Atkins.....
You don't get that nowadays.... nowadays we have to put up with Smith, Jones and the like....
Wonder what happened to Burnaby-Atkins ?
Lt Col Burnaby-Atkins.....
You don't get that nowadays.... nowadays we have to put up with Smith, Jones and the like....
Wonder what happened to Burnaby-Atkins ?
I rather like the sound of Major General Sir Brian Wyldbore-Smith, former Treasurer of the Conservative Party who was appraoched by Henry Root for an honour as recounted in The Henry Root Letters (1980).
HR was at it again with Wyldbore-Smith in 1987 as this letter shows:
To the Treasurer of the Conservative Party:
Dear Major-General Wyldbore-Smith: I'm a blunt man accustomed to plain speaking. What's the going rate for getting an honour? I don't mean an OBE or a CBE. Those are reserved for crooners or those who are quick over the high hurdles. What would do the trick? £25,000? £50,000? I enclose a pound. This is for yourself personally, you understand.
Dear Major-General Wyldbore-Smith: I'm a blunt man accustomed to plain speaking. What's the going rate for getting an honour? I don't mean an OBE or a CBE. Those are reserved for crooners or those who are quick over the high hurdles. What would do the trick? £25,000? £50,000? I enclose a pound. This is for yourself personally, you understand.
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