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Rod Madocks from Nottingham wrote on October 13, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Thank you so much for remembering Squadron Leader Dennis Graham-Hogg. I met him after the war in the 60s and 70s as I was friends with his son Christopher. A remarkable man, he was a steely, impressive character, still picking out bits of Blenheim perspex from his face, a crack shot and polo player also very generous and convivial. . He worked for Shell after the war and travelled the world. He wrote a book on pigeon shooting and retired to Cyprus. He died in 1997 and his dear wife, Gillian, the following year.. Tragically, his son, my best friend, was killed in an accident in 1975.
Admin Reply by: Julian Horn
Hello Rod, I was delighted to receive your information regarding Rotterdam hero, Sqn Ldr Denis Graham-Hogg. Thanks to Julian Horn’s excellent website, my book Mast High Over Rotterdam has been readily accessible to a huge number of people – much more so than a book in standard published form. Here are my observations on your update. In my biography of Denis, I naturally assumed that he had retired to his birthplace, Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri-Lanka) and wondered if I had missed a golden opportunity of meeting him during my many RAF Rangers to Cyprus in the 1960s and 1970s. However, as I did not start my research into the Rotterdam raid until 1981, this was never on the cards! On a poignant note, my interview with Denis’s WOp/AG, Jim Marsden, enabled me to recount to his widow the final moments of his observer, David Wyatt, when they crashed into the sea on 18th July 1941. She was eternally grateful for this, and we exchanged Christmas cards until she died just a few years ago. Just in case I made a simple error, can you please confirm that the photo of Denis, which is in his biography, is in fact correct? So sorry to read that his son, and your best friend, Christopher, was killed in an accident. This clearly came as a shock to you. Thank you again for your most interesting update on Sqn Ldr Denis Graham-Hogg. With kind regards, Rusty Russell
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