As you know from my stories I spent the day yesterday until late last night queue to see Our Queen lay in State. It was the most wonderful day for so many reasons. I will post another reel about that soon. But this is about an amazing guy named John Collinson, who I befriended 🤗 John was born in 26th June 1932 (90 years old) he was with his daughter and queued with us for 7 and half hours!!! (Finally he allowed the support staff to fast track him when we were close to lambeth bridge which we were pleased with but sad to see him go) What a lovely soul ❤️ John was called up for National Service aged 18 in September 1950 (at the time of the Korean War) and sent to Winchester to be trained by the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, part of the 60th Rifles Brigade. While there King George VI inspected the unit so my dad on the parade ground stood at attention as the King passed. After his training he served at Borden camp in Hampshire and then Strensall near York as a soldier of the Durham Light Infantry since that was the county he was born in and lived in. This will be another one of those memories I will treasure for ever ❤️😊 #london #thequeen #queen #john