Robert Le Page

Robert Le Page (1920-2006) served as an Observer with the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy 816 Squadron – Swordfish. He was stationed on HMS Dasher flying Swordfish aircraft in the early war years. He was lucky to be ashore when the Aircraft Carrier mysteriously exploded and sank in the Clyde. He was then transferred to fly from HMS Tracker. He wrote a fascinating memoir about his experiences called “Luck of the Devil”. After the war he studied for a BA in English Language and Literature. This eventually took him to Jamaica where he became a well respected Creole Linguist. He collaborated with a fellow academic in the publishing of Dictionary of Jamaican English 1967.