The eventful life of Bee Wee Captain Nigel Heath Sunday, February 10 2008 Born in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan, on February 06, 1930, when half of the world was coloured pink in the Atlases of that time, Nigel Heath was a child of the Raj. His father, George, was a Major in the Indian Army, his mother Phyllis, the daughter of a bandmaster. He died on February 2, 2008 in the UK - a country he only really got to know in the last ten or so years of his life. At ten going on eleven it would have been time for Nigel to go to boarding school in England but in wartime parents in the Indian Army, Indian Civil Service and business preferred to send their sons to safety in an English-style boarding school in Naini Tal, a hill station in the Himalayas. In fact, Nigel Heath didn't return to England until he was 19 or 20 - by which time, after a slightly shaky start, he had learned to fly (the legend is that he took off for a solo training flight in a Sopwith Camel and returned to the airfield riding a camel). Full text at: http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,73039.html ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India