"He used to sit inside my battledress,ā€¯
Sir Robert Clark on Falla
"Born ...1924"
1926, he'd been given a teddy bear that he called Falla"
"...During World War II, he was recruited to Churchill's Special Operations Executive, and he was later parachuted behind enemy lines in Italy, where he was captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war...
Sir Robert Clark died in January this year in his late 80s, and when reading his obituary I was particularly struck to notice that at the age of two, which must have been in 1926, he'd been given a teddy bear that he called Falla...
...When Sir John Betjeman died, he was holding Archibald Ormsby-Gore in his arms, and in death, as in life, Falla was with Sir Robert Clark to the very end..."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21265701
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