The Few Become Fewer

[Kromovaracun]

https://inews.co.uk/news/raf-battle-britain-wing-commander-tom-neil-ace-death/

Wing Commander Tom Neil has died, aged 97.

RIP

[twix123]

A true hero - RIP

[marval]

RIP Wing Commander Tom Neil.

[naomi24]

Thank you is not enough. With the greatest respect, RIP.

[ChillDoubt]

From the finest generation of young men this country has ever known.

RIP

[fbg40]

Evening all
While on the subject of "The few become fewer", did anybody see the documentary concerning the 51st Highland Regiment - the regiment that was left behind at Dunkirk ? A very moving programme about which I knew nothing. The programme had 6 men from this regiment all approaching 100 years of age, yet all very alert. One chap was close to tears when he said "I think about those we left behind". Try and watch it on catch up TV if you can - very moving.
FBG40

[david small]

One can only imagine what these elderly warriors think of our country and it’s so called leaders now.

[Peter Pedant]

My late Papa d. 1972 was captured along with those left behind and then spent 5 y 'in the bag'. Captured at Schorrisse, near Oudenaarde - yeah where the battle comes from.

as an ex South African miner was involved in the Spangenburg tunnnel but escaped from the Lazarett. Walked across Germany and was caught on the Danish border having swum the Kiel canal during an air raid. on 22 Jun 1941 - yes the day of Barbarossa. Good at German he was greeted with the line from Inglourious Barsterds, "your German is good but you're not German are you?"
eek ! Czech then but what was a czech doing on the Danish border?

Since he died 40 y ago I am frankly amazed any are still alive.

[jourdain2]

Deep respect to W.C Tom Neil, although one accepts the inevitable.
david small - I know what one man (b.1933, evacuated twice from London; saw bombs falling on Swansea; returned to the doodlebugs and swapped shrapnel at school; did 2 yrs. National Service) thinks. I'm married to him - what he thinks of the current situation is not printable. (Wish it were.)