By: Don Adams

Don Adams — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:22:29 +0000

Dennis was a work colleague in the nineteen sixties in the Data Processing industry. He was an atheist and espoused Communist principles. In later years he featured in the national press twice. On the first occasion he was censured for when working as a school bus driver he tried to teach his passengers Russian geography. He was in the news again years later for flying over Greenham Common airfield in a light aircraft towing a Ban the Bomb banner and for that he served a short prison sentence.
I do not know how he earnt his living after the sixties decade but in the ensuing years he built his own house – he was a competent engineer and a hard worker.
He cared for other people and regularly contacted his old colleagues by telephone and attended reunions. I always regarded Dennis with slightly amused affection – for me he came into the ” loveable old rogue” category. He was always a man of principle, for which he should be admired. I am saddened by his passing.

Comments on: An elderly, but healthy British couple (Dennis & Flora Milner of Newbury, Berkshire, aged 83 and 81) who are thought to have committed suicide together, sent a letter to the BBC just before their deaths complaining about the law prohibiting assisted suicide.

By: Don Adams