|
|
SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997
|
SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997 |
09-15-10, 07:44 AM
|
#1 |
|
Lucky Jack
 Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 25,976
Downloads: 61
Uploads: 20
|
The things you never know
Once, years ago, I used to live in Kent, my parents kept horses in a nice little field in the sleepy village of Plaxtol. Living in a house next to this little field was a lovely old gentleman by the name of Mr Hodges, we would give him manure for his roses and he would always stop for a chat and comment on how nice the horses looked, I went round his house and played with his grandchildren. We knew he was quite important as he was equerry to the Queen...but we never knew the full story it would seem. Until my Dad sent me an email today....
 It would seem that this lovely, well spoken gentleman was Air Chief Marshall Sir Lewis Hodges, who, sadly passed away in 2007. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle1290432.ece Quite frankly, right about now, you could knock me down with a feather... |
|
|
|
09-15-10, 07:46 AM
|
#2 |
|
Fleet Admiral
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 17,052
Downloads: 150
Uploads: 8
|
Wow. Amazing to think you knew this guy without knowing who he was.
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 07:51 AM
|
#3 |
|
SUBSIM Newsman
 Join Date: May 2008
Location: Close to sea
Posts: 24,254
Downloads: 553
Uploads: 0
|
Fantastic, as nice and respectable memory
__________________
Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie 
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 07:52 AM
|
#4 |
|
Lucky Jack
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Finland
Posts: 25,054
Downloads: 32
Uploads: 0
|
Truly amazing!
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 09:30 AM
|
#5 |
|
Subsim Aviator
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 8,726
Downloads: 146
Uploads: 0
|
neat story
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 09:57 AM
|
#6 |
|
Rear Admiral
 Join Date: May 2006
Location: Malaga, España
Posts: 10,750
Downloads: 8
Uploads: 0
|
Wow, just wow
What a chap, pitty you didn't knew this when he was still alive and where able to visit. HunterICX
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 10:06 AM
|
#7 |
|
Kaiser Bill's batman
Join Date: May 2010
Location: AN72
Posts: 13,203
Downloads: 76
Uploads: 0
|
At least you used to give him manure
 , how many of us have given somebody of an older generation other sort of manure in the past just for being 'old'? If only people could see what people have done before then maybe we'd once again be a more respectful nation.
__________________
|
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 10:11 AM
|
#8 |
|
Chief of the Boat
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 250 metres below the surface
Posts: 190,678
Downloads: 63
Uploads: 13
|
A fascinating story mate
 Tis a good job he never caught you playing with his grandchildren  
__________________
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!!  |
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 11:26 AM
|
#9 |
|
Eternal Patrol
 Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: High in the mountains of Utah
Posts: 50,369
Downloads: 745
Uploads: 249
|
Great story, Oberon! Sad that you couldn't have known sooner and talked to him some, but on the other hand he probably valued his privacy. Good to know though.
__________________
“Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo |
|
|
|
|
09-15-10, 11:30 AM
|
#10 |
|
Lucky Jack
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: In a 1954 Buick.
Posts: 28,277
Downloads: 90
Uploads: 0
|
It is amazing how extrodinary people act ordinary. Imagine the question you would have had if you had known!!!
__________________
“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
