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so he stayed for three. He was in the catering corps and throughout his time in the army he travelled to far-flung places like Nairobi where he cooked in the Officers’ Mess. “It was quite a novelty because I was cooking the game they had shot, like gazelles. I used to have all these wild animals hanging up around the kitchen.” After a few more years in the military he moved to Dartmouth and started work at the Royal Naval College in 1956. He stayed there for over 30 years and was chief cook for the final 10. His hard work in the services paid off as he was later awarded the Imperial Service Medal. He then became a painter and decorator and met Maureen, but shortly after he suffered a heart attack. He recovered relatively quickly and was asked to take a medical trial for Guys Hospital who were trying to discover if medication could suffice as an alternative to a heart bypass. “I went up four times a year for 10 years. At first I would catch the train up to the capital but then they started sending a car to pick me up!


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I would be taken to the front door at Guys then they would do a few tests, I had to get on the treadmill, that kind of thing, then they would bring me back home!” Now he spends his day pottering


in the community hall and enjoying a nice lunch with Maureen. He says


Everyone who uses it


says the same thing - that it’s a lovely big bright space, with so many facilities”


including a fully working kitchen. We just need more groups to use it and more volunteers to help us run it - and we would like more people to book it for parties. There is the space to have a bouncy castle, or a big dinner party or a disco.” The hall is home to Dartmouth Players who use it to rehearse each week and they also store all their equipment up there. “If we had more groups like that using us on a regular basis it would really help.” The hall recently suffered a spate of vandalism – windows were smashed and the outdoor water butt was damaged. “They aren’t major things but it will cost a couple of hundred pounds to put it all right. It’s a shame as it is just a few people ruining it for others. I do believe that generally the community supports and loves this hall, we just need to work together to make it more of a social hub and keep it thriving.”


the hall is very much part of the community and he wants it to stay that way: “Everyone who uses it says the same thing - that it’s a lovely big bright space with so many facilities


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