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Officers serving meal b

Officers serving meal b

At first, I thought that this was a duplicate, but it isn't.  The small sllghtly balding officer with a typical R.A.F. moustache on the etreme right Is Flt. Lt. Joe Cant.  I'm told that he was a very popular officer and was for a few years the officer commanding the linguists at Battys. When his plane was shot down during the war he became a prisoner of war in Germany and, amazingly, he learned Mandarin during that time.  (Andrew S)

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, December 25, 1952
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