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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5805 on: February 16, 2019, 10:06:39 AM »
Dick Churchill 99


No me neither but he was the last surviving Great Escaper.  And for that he gets an RIP from me

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47257570

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5806 on: February 16, 2019, 05:41:30 PM »
Well, whatever, nevermind

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« Reply #5807 on: February 16, 2019, 07:31:46 PM »
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5808 on: February 16, 2019, 09:27:39 PM »
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5811 on: February 21, 2019, 06:38:01 PM »
One would hope he might have licked that.
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« Reply #5813 on: February 21, 2019, 06:50:14 PM »
One would hope he might have licked that.

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5814 on: February 21, 2019, 06:52:39 PM »
Peter Tork, 77

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6730277/Monkees-singer-Peter-Tork-dies-age-77-diagnosed-rare-tongue-cancer-10-years-ago.html

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5815 on: February 21, 2019, 06:54:38 PM »
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5816 on: February 22, 2019, 08:53:50 PM »
Robert Mayfield, Vito Ambrosio, Harry Estabrooks, George Williams, Charles Tuttle, Maurice Robbins, John Kriegshauser, Lyle Curtis, Melchor Hernandez and John Humphrey

Nearly 75 years ago but tough to watch this story about 10 US Airmen and one alive but ailing 82 year old Brit still feeling guilty and not feel moved

"Just met an amazing man in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. Tony Foulds was an 8-yr-old playing in the park when a US plane crashed in Feb 1944. He has diligently maintained the memorial ever since. He was planting new flowers. Almost 75 yrs of service. What a man. I’m in bits . . .

Tony said he still feels guilty because if he hadn’t been in the park that day the plane could have landed safely. Instead the pilot avoided the children and crashed into the hill. "


More here: https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker

original video here: https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1081111068913647617
Well he got his flypast and that bit was good

Sadly the BBC made an act of remembrance into a crass TV show and what looked like a cheap village fete

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-47323045

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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5817 on: February 24, 2019, 03:55:50 PM »
Stanley Donon  eeek: sad24:
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Re: In Memory of "Friends" Departed
« Reply #5819 on: February 24, 2019, 04:00:17 PM »
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