We had a terrific talk at the club on our return in January on the rather intriguing war “hero” Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, a naval officer who, among other bizarre feats managed to drag two gunships the length of Africa from the southern Cape to Lake Tanganyika in North Africa in order to battle the Germans during WW1. His first command, HMS Niger, was torpedoed in port by a U-boat whilst Spicer-Simson watched from ashore. Grateful thanks to speaker David Binnie for his highly entertaining account of this unusual character.
