- The Roy Eames Page -
From Roy's album.
Roy's Watch List as he remembered it a couple of years after demob with his own Email address added.
One of the names over there in the second column from the right is J. Ronane. who in later life became an actor and appeared many times in UK television dramas. He now lives in the United States and besides teaching drama in Illinois, has turned to play & book writing. His "Hank goes Dancing" ISBN 0-595-18207-0 published in 2001 tells of the attempted amorous and usually frustrated adventures of radar operator Hank who is stationed at Ventnor. Marriage, for him a word synonymous with "sex", is forever uppermost in Hank's mind, but his belief that he is God's gift to women is misguided, and thus his own gauche ineptness in the art of wooing, not aided by a millstone in the form of the unfortunate Farmer, prevents that happy outcome. Eschewing the virginal Fay who is usually guarded by her mother, he meets a variety of other girls at the Pavillion (the Winter Gardens) one of whom is "posh totty" who leads him on and then discards him for her own amusement. The tale ends with situation normal i.e.Hank thwarted yet again.One wonders if this comic tarradiddle could be autobiographical in part or even whole, as it will almost certainly strike chords from those distant days in many of us ex RAF lads? Pretty light weight stuff I suppose, but well worth a read because of just that besides its Ventnor connection.
I am hoping that one day John will send a few words to provide a non fictional account of his Ventnor service.
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