John Tweddell Downes I.S.O (1925-2006) John Downes was born in Plymouth in1925. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1943 and served as a Communic...

Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid...

Graham has confirmed that Jon's brother, Richard has arrived. Mark North

We have recently be informed by Graham, who is with Jonathan at his fathers bedside that he is "unlikely to last the night" at Bar...

Graham and I went to the hospital this afternoon. Dad is in intensive care, and in a semi-comatose state. On top of everything else he now h...

I have just spoken to the hospital. They have asked me to come there now. My brother is flying back from Germany this evening. I have to say...

I have just had a telephone call from the hospital. Dad is in considerable pain with a strangulated hernia and will be going in to surgery s...