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Giles Blundell (d. 2000) of Slievenamon (Fethard)

Lt Cdr Giles R Blundell was a mechanical engineer who became a test pilot for the Royal Navy. He was originally from Kenya although his parents eventually retired in County Cork. My father met him when he was at Dartmouth. In the mid-1960s, Giles joined my late godfather Paddy Meiklejohn at Morangie Towers [was this […]