In a Moon's Course

From a poem by John Drinkwater (1882 to 1937) entitled ‘Passage’. "Remember then that also we in a moon’s course are history". My journey in placing flags in the e-world about people's lives that were originally captured in pen and ink, on a typewriter or in books now discarded.

Thursday, 16 January 2014

The Catalina in Finisterre

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The transatlantic crossings by RAF Flight Sergeant Alan Rodgers in World War II were nothing like oceanic travel today.   In a comfortable s...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Leading Aircraftsman Lawrence Reynolds

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Leading Aircraftsman Lawrence Reynolds was 20 years old when he died.   He was the gunner/ radio operator in a light bomber called a Fair...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013

The Four Chinese Nurses of St. Stephen’s College Hospital.

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 Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong (Wikimedia) The plain gravestone at the Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong bears a simp...
Saturday, 6 July 2013

David Hornell, Ferdinand St. Laurent and Donald Scott

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PBY-5 'Canso' Flying boat in CWHM     The citation for valour in the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (CWHM) to Flight L...
Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Josef Horak

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Wynne Horakova, with photo of Josef (Radio Praha website; photo www.czech-tv.cz) Josef Horak was a Czechoslovakian Air Force office...
Friday, 17 May 2013

Ancient and Tattered Airmen

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    There is a photograph on various memorabilia web sites of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) showing a group of four older pilots...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013

The Other Brother

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T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia , Thomas Edward Lawrence (known professionally as T.E.) had four brothers.   His youngest brother Ar...
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