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The Leonard Chehsire Foundation has a major impact from the UK Disability Discrimination Act - according to the Leonard Cheshire Disabled Peoples Forum, people with disabilities do not want Charity -will Leonard Cheshire Foundation survive? Or will it's 3 Public Liability Companies absorb the foundation? (Companies House) Have they already done this!

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It appears that Cheshire also started The Memorial Fund For Disaster Relief around 1989. Roger Water's "The Wall Live in Berlin" (1990) was to benifit the fund. Some badges and Parker pens were also sold, made from scraps of nuclear missiles. It looks like the fund was merged or discontinued. Any details on this? Gadget850 09:08, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

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Regarding the P-51 Mustang epsiode, I'm sure this is Willie Tait, the CO to succeed Cheshire at 617. (Ref Paul Brickhill, Dambusters). Any confirmation from second sources either way? EwanSpence

It was Chesire who first used a P-51, althought Tait continued the practice, see " Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz" by Alan W Cooper, page 85. Thanks Harryurz 16:19, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Which B-29?

The British observers Cheshire & Penney were on Big Stink not The Great Artiste according to “Cheshire” the biography by Richard Morris (2000). Hopkins was meant to link up with the others at Yakushima, but he kept at 39,000 feet instead of the agreed height (30,000 feet?). He tried to justify this by the need to keep the VIP passengers out of danger. Cheshire thought Hopkins (in charge of Big Stink) was “overwrought” according to Morris. The appointment of Hopkins was “strange”; as the operations officer he had no regular crew. Cheshire was with Penney, and in Hopkins’ plane so I have amended this page accordingly (at present it says The Great Artiste). Hugo999 06:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)