Most readers of this blog will know
that Dennis Cambell, Captain of HMS Ark Royal in 1955/6 and inventor of
the Angled Flight Deck, married Dorothy Downes. I was a pageboy at their
wedding in 1933 – the picture shows I rather disapproved of the outfit I was
asked to wear!
Their daughter Lalage Cambell
writes: I have launched a new website commemorating my father, replacing the
old, very tired website, and I am circulating the link to those cousins for
whom I have email addresses in case of interest. It is very much under
development and there are several pages that I would like to expand in time. https://www.denniscambell.org.uk/
She would, I am sure, welcome your
comments.
If you scroll down to the entry for
October 2017 you will find a picture of their house and the blue plaque fixed
over the door.
In your blog of 28.10.17 you refer to this photograph of you and our sister Audrey at the Campbell wedding in 1933. Your presence at the Campbell's 50th anniversary was because of Lamorna's and Lalage's decision that the guests should be all those who attended the wedding. I was also privileged to come to this splendid anniversary party because Audrey pointed out that our mother (whose mother was Theodosia Downes) was pregnant at the time, meaning that I too had attended the wedding!
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