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Old 24-01-2014, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Coquet View Post
This leads us to the question who replaced him?
I had a look at the newspapers to see if there was any sort of obit for him without luck. There was discussion after his death about an appropriate memorial but no follow up that I've found yet. There was also in 1944 a lot of mumblings in the Council meetings about the fact that after 2 years he hadn't been replaced. It made the national newspapers apparently which caused more mumblings. Amble did have cover but they were utilising the docs at Broomhill (Newton) and Alnmouth (Emmerson).
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