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Annual Dinner
2019 | Fri 31st May | Cardiff
Chairman John Davey speaking at the 2019 South Wales & West Branch Annual Dinner, held on Friday 31st May at the The Exchange Hotel in Cardiff.
Obituary
John Gregson Slater MICS
22.3.1932 - 17.3.2019
Son of the late Wing Commander E.A. Slater O.B.E and Mrs M E Slater (Babs). Centre is John Slater to his left is the late George Phillips FICS and to John's right Alan Humphries FICS.
Alan Humphries, reflects on the life of John...
I first became acquainted with John in 1960 when I was a trainee shipbroker in Exmouth, we lost touch for a number of years but started to meet again principally at local branch meetings of the ICS. Over the last fifteen or more years this built into a close friendship, we used to meet regularly for pasty evenings, when we talk about the “old times”, his face would shine, clearly shipping was his first true love. Whether working in the shipping industry or any of his other career paths John was always a keen supporter of the ICS, right up to the time when he had to give up driving he, at the very least attending the Branch AGM.
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