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If it's not too late please ask after his old friend Tony Pickering (although I fear the worst). They both adressed us in 2000 at an Air Warrior convention at the Great Barr hotel in Birmingham (at the time it was not actually that 'Great' but it was passable). Some of us older lags remember it well. After their interesting and inspirational after-dinner speeches I passed a very pleasant half hour with Ton'y wife talking about her favourite grand-daughter and my own daughters. Hopefully she is still well too.

Ken had flown Spitfires in the Battle of Britain and had flown in the 'Big Wing' with Douglas Bader. "Sixty aircraft in perfect formation, Fifty Nine aircraft under strict radio silence;... and Bader, chatting away to all and sundry. We were a grand sight" said Ken, "We never saw the enemy, but we were a Grand Sight."