The nicknames some RAF pilots had are just fantastic and so too are the stories behind how they got them. Wing Commander George Cecil Unwin is no exception, and this is the story of how he got his name ‘Grumpy’.
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I love reading about the little things like this that remind us the war was fought by human beings, not movie characters.
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I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday, so can understand unreliable memories 🙂
Some nicknames also came about by the initials of the person, e.g. the politician R A Butler was known as 'Rab'. One curiosity that comes to mind is 'Dusty', seemingly bestowed on everyone with the surname Miller. wild guess Maybe the flour some millers got covered in looked like dust?
Great work mate.
You cannot recall an event unless remembering it for the first time after that all you are doing is remembering the last time you remembered it.
I knew a Joiner nicknamed Lofty because he looked like Lofty from “It ain’t half hot mum”.
Then he accidentally cut a new loft hatch in the middle floor of a 3 storey building.
This gave a new context to an existing nickname.
He was a Yorkshireman. Grumpy fits many of them.
He lost bet for first combat sortie over Dunkerque.
`Cos he wasn`t Happy.
What's in a name . . . Stinky?