Some Sunny Day
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18. On holiday in Calcutta with Basil, April 1945.
19. Saying goodbye. A picnic on the beach at Patanga, May 1945.
20. Madge and the girls on the MV Georgic as they began their journey home.
21. Vera, Phyl and Madge on Regent Street, London, 1947.
22. Basil came back to the coldest winter of the twentieth century, February 1947.
23. Madge and Basil on their wedding day, 16 October 1948.
24. Madge and Basil meeting Dame Vera Lynn on Horse Guards Parade on the 60th anniversary of VE and VJ Day, July 2005.
25. Madge meeting Prince Harry at Buckingham Palace Garden Party in 2017.
Some Sunny Day
Robert ‘Bob’ Blair is the son of an RAF navigator who flew in the Burma Campaign and a WAAF mother who was stationed at Bletchley Park in the Second World War. He was educated at Wirral and Ellesmere Port Grammar Schools and began his career on weekly papers. He moved to the London Evening Standard before emigrating to Canada, where he worked for the Ottawa Citizen, then on to Hong Kong. After two years with the South China Morning Post Group he returned to London and spent thirty years with Mirror Group Newspapers.
Over the years he has visited more than ninety countries, including India, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Borneo, the Philippines and Indonesia.
First published 2018 by Pan Books
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Couple dancing by Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Getty Images; background image by Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images; back dancing image © BBC; portraits courtesy of the author
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