SHINING ARMAGH

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SHINING ARMAGH

SIR,

I enjoyed the article on the Tui, but must inform you that Bert Hawthorne was born at Derryhennitt near Keady, County Armagh in Northen Ireland, and was therefore a compatriot ofJohn Watson.

He left there with his family for New Zealand when he was 13. In 1998, his sister Irene returned to the home farm and had a stone from the farm engraved ‘Bert Hawthorne, 14th April 1972. Age 28. Sadly missed’. This she has placed at the spot of the accident at Hockenheim. JAM, youiss ETC, SIMON THOMAS, NORTHERN IRELAND