CHARLIE THOMPSON - DAVE PHILLIPS-STATESMAN

Allan. Did you know Charlies claim to fame? He was in the parachute Regiment and was the second guy to make a jump during the Suez crisis in the fifties.

Must have been a bloody big parachute

Dave
is that charlie thomsen from Goole in Yorkshire,, looks like him,,,

Cheque book Charlie was his niickname in United if I remember

I had the pleasure of sailing under charlie when he was skipper of the hull trawler ST CHAD. in about 1968 he was a very nice person to his crews etc.a true gentleman. laurie dixon/.(Pint)he was a DADDY FOR THE LADS.