posted Sep 10, 2007

I was too ILL, to watch the news, at all, yesterday, but, at the moment, I am trying to compile a list, of ALL AWARDEES, of the Victoria Cross, so, - having just READ about this in the newspaper, - I am VERY UPSET, indeed, right now!

I would just like to say, that, the World could do with MANY MORE like this man!

May he REST IN PEACE, now, - and EVERMORE!

God BLESS you, SIR TASKER WATKINS, V.C.!

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posted Sep 10, 2007

Agree with whats been said. True hero and gentleman. R.I.P

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posted Sep 10, 2007

As the poppy leaves fall over the grass at the millenium stadium, I call on our Welsh players, be proud, couragous, heroic, alike Sir Tasker Watkins, V.C.: An officer, a gentleman, a man among men, less we forget....we will remember HIM. (do him proud on saturday lads)

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posted Sep 10, 2007

Heard his citation read out on the news this morning...
A true hero - rest in peace

Wish I'd met you

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posted Sep 10, 2007

My parents live next door to him and I met him on several occasion and he was always took an interest in what you did and was agood neighbour to have.

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posted Sep 10, 2007

I am a proud and passionate welshman and I stand with my chest out proudly admiring all what Tasker Watkins was about, He will long be remembered for his bravery during ww2 and indeed his presidency of the wru, I hope that our nation embraces this sad loss and gives him and his family all the respect due.. A statue in the middle of Cardiff a fitting tribute indeed to a great Welshman!

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posted Sep 11, 2007

I never met Sir Tasker, but he was on my list of people I would like to meet. He was certainly the only man to reach the very top of the legal profession AND win the VC - there will never be another. Reading the tributes to him, and knowing him through his legal judgments, several things come out:
a) He came from a modest background, but got the kind of old-fashioned grammar school education that enabled him to reach the heights;
b) There is the interesting mix of the man who was superlatively brave in battle, but also had the intellect, the steadiness and the wisdom required of judges, as well as the determination to make the leap in the dark of choosing the Bar as a profession despite his 'non-traditional' background, and at a time when he had a wife and young family.
c) He was a thoroughly decent and honourable man, of a kind typical of his generation, who went through the war, but undervalued in the age of David Beckham and Jade Goody.

God rest his soul, and my condolences to his family.

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posted Sep 11, 2007

Rest in Peace, Sir Tasker.

Perhaps the WRU could organise a tribute match in his honour, with the profits made
going to the Royal British Legion?

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posted Sep 16, 2007

God Bless You Sir Tasker

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