TankerTN,

Re your post about Hector Heathcote.

From that era at Kai Tak, a few others who have departed are: Eric - Whinging Sid - Shelmerdine, Pete Presley, John Black, Tom Taylor and from your pre-Nav days: Chris Feek. The Staish - Rex Williams, Alec Leggett, Doc Reid, Brian Johnson, David Hughes, 'Batchy' Brown, Dick Steed, Tom Grace.

Old Duffer

O-D
absolutely hate to question you again, but surely Tom Taylor is still with us?

I'm thinking the Geordie with an enormous moustache, or was there another??

TTH,

This one's Sunday name was: Ernest Robert Taylor and he was flying XR477 on 30 Oct 69, when he flew through some overhead cables in the New Territories. I think the one to whom you refer is a genuine Thomas.

IIRC, the man you're thinking of went 'rotary' in about 1965/6 but was also in the Far East. He didn't have a 'tash but Phil Bleasdale did!!

O-D

Really sorry to hear about "Sid" Shelmerdine O-D - another stalwart of the Sunday curry club. Didnt he lose his sight at an early age? Chris Feek and I shared a Ford Zephyr MkII convertible at Seletar - that front bench seat could tell a tale or two ;)

(I hasten to add we were never in the car at the same time!)

I didn't know that Eric lost his eyesight, as our paths never crossed after Kai Tak but it must have been about ten years ago that I learned that he had died.

Chris Feek was also sadly very young when he left us in about 2002.

O-D