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THE NOTES I SUMMER 2020
Announcements together, both at home and abroad. David had always wanted to return to his home area of SE London and in 2014 he and Sue moved to Beckenham, where they lived very happily.
Clarke
Rev Robert Clarke (’52) died on 1 June 2020. He was a former Chaplain to HM The Queen. Before retiring back to the UK, he spent most of the year in Cadiz in Southern Spain performing honorary duties in Gibraltar Cathedral, returning to the UK every two or three months for his formal duties at St James’s Palace.
Dawson
Wedding
Obituaries
M N R Lee (’04) and Miss A E Lattimore (’05) married at Eltham Palace, during last Summer.
Carter
The Dunstonian couple first met as students at SDC, remained friends during university and became engaged in August 2018. No surprise that quite a few ODs numbered among the wedding guests and groomsmen, including leavers from ’03, ’04 and ’05.
Major David John Carter (’65) died on 21.2.20, his funeral being held on 10 March 2020 at Beckenham Crematorium, followed by a wake at The Chancery in Beckenham. His formal obituary gave details of a life enjoyed life to the full. He had a love of cars, at one time owning three Alfa Romeos one in green, one in white and one in red, to represent the Italian flag. David grew up in Forest Hill and had very happy memories of his childhood and early adult years before joining the Army in 1968, a career which took him to many different places. He had three wives. His first wife gave him two daughters, Samantha and Zoe, who in turn have each given him a beautiful grand-daughter – Veronique and Isabella. He met his third wife, Sue, in 2008 and over the past 12 years they enjoyed travelling, especially to Cyprus, where he was stationed three times with the United Nations and the Army. They enjoyed many happy times
We are obliged to J S ‘John’ Brightwell (’64) for passing on the news of the death of his friend and contemporary, Dr M H O ‘Michael’ Dawson (’63), on 2.4.20 at his adopted home in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, We give here an edited version of a longer obituary by an unknown writer which was provided by Brightwell. Son of the late Wilfred and Phyllis (née Osborne), Michael Dawson was an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in spinal conditions and had a private practice in Pottsville for some 39 years, retiring in March 2012. After leaving St Dunstan’s, he completed all his medical education in the UK and served at the London Hospital in Whitechapel before moving on to complete specialist training at the Robert & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry. Throughout his life Michael was straightforward in his left-of centre views and a complete enthusiast for his work and the good it brought to those whom he treated. In return, he was highly regarded for both his work and his teaching of other surgeons during his time in the USA and earlier in the UK. His professional dedication was as much a part of him as his occasional bluntness in argument and his brow-furrowed love appreciation of music.
