my own father Ian Bogaert passed away yesterday morning in the middle of a snow-storm at home in Spittal next to the North-Sea...whilst a reservist with 10 Rly Sqn RE and at his annual camp in Longmoor his unit was mobilised and he was sent by aircraft to the canal Zone Egypt to :salute return 12 months later(some annual camp)....50 years later he received his Suez medal in a plain cardboard box and printed letter from the MOD...I can honestly say he couldnt have cared less at this late period in his life...some of his last words where about the Royal Engineers...as a former soldier myself...I was mighty proud of him and his generation!best regard malcolm erik bogaert
