Category Archives: Obituary

HMY Iolaire and SS Mendi and nearly 900 tragic deaths

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ianchisnall

Earlier this year I had the privilege of travelling to Stornaway as part of our trip to the Isles of Harris and Lewis and was able to spend a few minutes at the Memorial set up a few months earlier … Continue reading →

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The loss of some utterly amazing people

Posted on January 20, 2018 by ianchisnall

Yesterday thanks to facebook, I discovered the loss of two people, one of whom I have known for many years and who made an enormous contribution to the South East National Offender Management Service. Soraya is pictured here, her death … Continue reading →

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Remembering a great bloke

Posted on November 11, 2017 by ianchisnall

Yesterday I received a very sad message announcing the death of a man who I had got to know over the last 5 years. Peter died in the arms of his wonderful wife on Wednesday, having suffered from prostrate cancer … Continue reading →

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Different public, same grief

Posted on June 6, 2017 by ianchisnall

The sight of a single coffin being carried across the sands of Barra led by a lone piper and 21 male mourners is the penultimate part of a very tragic journey for 14 years old Eilidh MacLeod. Her funeral yesterday … Continue reading →

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Two tragic sinkings

Posted on January 1, 2017 by ianchisnall

Exactly 98 years ago today a ship named the Iolaire ran onto rocks at a place called Holm at the edge of the natural harbour of Stornaway and within sight of the dockside. Holm point is shown a the bottom … Continue reading →

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Social media always gets through

Posted on November 15, 2016 by ianchisnall

This morning I awoke to news via Facebook that someone I know very well has died in her home in Brighton in her 40’s, posted by her family in the USA. Her death which as yet I don’t have any … Continue reading →

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The silence must bring change

Posted on November 13, 2016 by ianchisnall

Today as we commemorate the silence as the horrendous machines of death fell still in 1918, we are recalling a time when the world had changed. It did not go back to what it had been 4 years earlier. Those … Continue reading →

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Here is a box….

Posted on July 3, 2016 by ianchisnall

….a musical box, wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today? The death of Gordon Murray was a small sad note in a week of cataclysmic changes … Continue reading →

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Two good deaths

Posted on April 14, 2016 by ianchisnall

  I am privileged to have known two wonderful women who sadly this week have died after a long illness. As it happens both women were women of faith and I know that they don’t see this as the end for … Continue reading →

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Peter Stocker (1953-2015)

Posted on November 17, 2015 by ianchisnall

The very sad news that Peter Stocker has died at the age of 62 following treatment for Cancer is sad news for those of us who used to walk past the Workshop Pottery at the bottom of Trafalgar Street in Brighton. His shop … Continue reading →

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