ON BEING 90 YEARS OLD AND IN THE ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL

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I am in the Acute Treatment Ward in the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading UK. It is staffed by doctors and nurses from many countries of the old British Empire all of whom work with superb manners and notable efficiency. It is as though the grandchildren of those we British Imperialist once ruled have come home to make a new and rich life for us all. I must write more about this soon. I the mean time I send my good wishes to those kind people who read my blog. More later I hope. It is the 9th August 2025.

It is 15th August and I am mending, Our British National Health Service is roundly criticised but where I am at the moment it is doing very well indeed.

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John Oakes was bombed by mistake by the Luftwaffe in World War II. educated in Cornwall, served in the Royal Air Force as a logistics and air movements officer, lived and worked in Libya for eight years and for three years in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. He travelled widely in Libya and Papua New Guinea, led field studies in Norway, met Jomo Kenyatta in Benghazi, Louis Leaky in the Serengeti, and John Steinbeck in Port Moresby. He was severely injured in Fiji and subsequently taught in one of the UK's oldest schools. In 2009 he was commissioned by the History Press to write about juvenile participation in war and wrote 'Kitchener's Lost Boys' about the many underaged recruits volunteering for Kitchener's New Army when the Great War began. He went on to write about Libya. His latest book, War Lord, examines the events leading up to and following the fighting in Libya triggered by the Arab Spring. He has written several papers for the War Child Journal and for the Journal of the Daniel Ceramic Circle. He is currently using his diaries recording his life as a boarders' House Master in Reading School to explore the link between boarding schools and imperialism.

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