{"id":75830,"date":"2013-12-15T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=75830"},"modified":"2023-09-10T16:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:17:51","slug":"unknown-man-now-identified-as-norman-patton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=75830","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Man &#8211; Now Identified as Norman Patton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/img188-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75802\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/img188-1.jpg 790w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/img188-1-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/img188-1-148x150.jpg 148w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/img188-1-400x405.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Found by&nbsp;family members in a wallet of Derrick Bowers, we were asked to attempt to identify the gentleman; we now know who this gentleman was. Geoff Patton told us: \u201dThis looks like my dad Norman Patton, he was very much a good friend of Derrick Bowers up to his death over 30 years ago.\u201d This is further confirmed by Norman Patton (Geoff\u2019s older brother): \u2019My younger brother; Geoff is quite right.&nbsp; My parents Betty and Norman Patton became close friends with Derek around 1965 and apart from their common love of gardening, they used to go off in a caravan in the summer and travelled throughout the United kingdom.&nbsp; When my father died in 1980 Derrick continued to be a close friend of my Mum and they continued with their travels to Malta,&nbsp; Germany,&nbsp; Belgium,&nbsp; and Northern Ireland where my wife, Margaret and I were serving in the army.&nbsp; I suspect that Margaret and I were the last of our family to speak to Derrick before he died.&nbsp; My abiding memory was of him telling us that he had had a wonderful life.&nbsp; You could say that Derrick was \u201cone of the family\u201d.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy of Keith Bowers and many thanks to Geoff Patton and Norman Patton for the identification and wonderful description.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found by&nbsp;family members in a wallet of Derrick Bowers, we were asked to attempt to identify the gentleman; we now know who this gentleman was. Geoff Patton told us: \u201dThis looks like my dad Norman Patton, he was very much a good friend of Derrick Bowers up to his death over 30 years [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-people","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75834,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75830\/revisions\/75834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}