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malaise

(288,531 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:09 PM Jan 2025

The great St Lucian Roy Augier

died overnight. A distinguished professor, Roy lived most of his life in Jamaica. He was 100 years, one month and a few days. He was lucid to the end. He was loved.

https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20241221/mr-cxc-sir-roy-augier-turns-100

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The great St Lucian Roy Augier (Original Post) malaise Jan 2025 OP
Congratulations 🎈 underpants Jan 2025 #1
Thanks malaise Jan 2025 #3
. BoRaGard Jan 2025 #2
Roy was a WW2 veteran malaise Jan 2025 #4
Thanks, Malaise. Biophilic Jan 2025 #5
YW - more malaise Jan 2025 #6
Quite an extraordinary person. Biophilic Jan 2025 #7

Biophilic

(6,034 posts)
5. Thanks, Malaise.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 01:59 PM
Jan 2025

I'm sorry for your loss, but it was wonderful to learn about someone like Roy Augier.

malaise

(288,531 posts)
6. YW - more
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:22 PM
Jan 2025

Like quite a few West Indians, as a very young man he volunteered for Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF). After training in Canada and Britain, he took part as a gunner in incredibly dangerous bombing missions during the last two years of World War II.

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