Mum kept an old newspaper story from 1940 about a proposal of marriage which Gerald made to a girl called Susan Hall via a national newspaper, after he went missing, having crash-landed on a beach at Lefkimmi in Corfu.
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The Blenheim Boys
‘The devotion and gallantry… are beyond all praise. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava is eclipsed in brightness by these almost daily deeds of fame.’
Winston Churchill on the Blenheim Crews - Prime Minister’s Personal Minute, M.852/1, 30 August 1941
