Tribute from Andrew Thank you all for coming. It is very very nice of you. Gordon will thoroughly appreciate this. There is a lot to get through so I will rattle on. Gordon would like you all to know his career. So he started his career as an engineer making and stripping dynamos and alternators. In 1953 he went into national service. 1954 he joined the Royal Military Police at SHAPE (that was a precursor to NATO) In 1955 Gordon met Bob at the TA Stoke Newington In 1958 he married Thelma 1960 was the first posting to Malaya 1963 we came back but only for 6 months then we were posted back to the Far East. The MFO boxes had not arrived they take 8 months so they had to be re-stamped and sent back again. We lived in Singapore, Penang, Kluang and Gordon was with the 17th Division Gurkha Black Cats. He fought in Borneo for a year fighting the communist guerrillas. We came back to Britain. Thelma had to have an operation because she had been stung by a Portuguese Man-o-war. She went into Norwich hospital for the procedure but she did not survive the operation. She was 27 years old. Gordon then became stationed at Kensington High Street barracks and was security detailed for a Government delegation. This was to Yugoslavia, India and Pakistan. In 1969 Gordon married Rose. We lived in Greenford Middlesex for a year. Then in 1970 we went to West Berlin. Gordon was a Staff Sergeant in the 247 Provost company. In 1973 posted to RAF Topcliffe. He and Sergeant Irving were the only two RMPs on the base. It was a 24th HQ Division Airportable Brigade The NATO exercise that year was Exercise Snow Queen. There were 13 fatalities on that. 11 paratroopers that got drowned. Their chutes got caught in propellers. The Admiral that was supposed to stop the shipping committed suicide and the 13th fatality was Sergeant Irving. He was doing traffic patrol he got hit and killed by a Beetle. I went to school with his son. But, Gordon, he was called up to his CEO because he was caught napping. No one realised that he had done 72 hours. No relief. After that he got the Brixmis job. That was 1974 posted to Potsdam. Gordon was the Mission House officer. We lived in the Mission House which was a large mansion. We lived on the top floor. Rose died of tumerous cancer on 1975. She had a military funeral and is buried in the British cemetery in West Berlin. Gordon and I in 1976 returned to Southern England but we brought back an East German immigrant with us. Her name was Sherry. And she had to go through a 6 month debrief at Folkestone and Dover kennels. In 1977 Gordon finished his last military post of service as CQMS (that is clothing quartermaster) at Roussillon barracks in Chichester. In his report: “Military conduct was exemplary. He achieves the highest success rate of any task and is strongly recommended for any position of trust.” In 1978 he joined the ministry defence police that operated out of Portsmouth dockyard. In 1980 he was employed as a Parks and Leisure Inspector by Portsmouth City Council until the authority terminated the Parks Department. In 1992 he worked on Terry Healey’s golf course. That was getting up at 6 o’clock in the morning all weathers all year round for these mad people with iron sticks. In 1994 Gordon and Jean sold their assets (he said Andrew I am going to sell you inheritance) and they both sold their assets and they bought a lovely house in Waterlooville. They lived in sin for 12 years before getting married in 2006. Gordon won all his hands with a very bad set of cards and on the 26th April 2020 he threw in his hand. Thank you all for coming.