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Friday 9 May
Ursula and I drove from Jill Combermere’s funeral in Berkshire to Paul Parsons’ home, Southfields, near Towcester, arriving at about 6:30 pm. Everybody was gathering in a barn next door to Paul‘s house and we quickly joined a briefing being given by Michael Shipster (ex-MI6) re security; and separately by Anthony White re accommodation and dinners along our route. I quickly found my expectation, that I would meet Charlie Moubray, was correct. he and I traded greetings and promised each other that was plenty to talk about and to catch up, having not seen one another for 50 years. In fact, he was staying elsewhere (not at Southfields) for Friday night so we didn’t get chatting until we arrived in Gliwice, in Poland, on Sunday evening.