Gordon COGGON
LABRATS International, UK
Gordon COGGON
LABRATS International, UK
Gordon Frederick Coggon – British Nuclear Test Veteran. Christmas Island 1957-1958
83 years old. Gordon was born in 1938 near Doncaster, witnessing the UK’s only true hydrogen bomb. After a long second career driving buses and HGVs, and having survived cancer and diabetes, Gordon finally retired at the age of 71. In 2020, aged 82, Gordon found himself locked down due to the Covid-19 pandemic and wrote a book – The Life of a Yorkshire Lad. (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Life-Yorkshire-Lad-Born-Doncaster/dp/B08P6G6GDX)
Gordon is a campaigner for LABRATS International and making action for recognition of the British Nuclear Test Veterans.
Videography by Eric Barton. Edited by Brian Cowden.
83 years old. Gordon was born in 1938 near Doncaster, witnessing the UK’s only true hydrogen bomb. After a long second career driving buses and HGVs, and having survived cancer and diabetes, Gordon finally retired at the age of 71. In 2020, aged 82, Gordon found himself locked down due to the Covid-19 pandemic and wrote a book – The Life of a Yorkshire Lad. (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Life-Yorkshire-Lad-Born-Doncaster/dp/B08P6G6GDX)
Gordon is a campaigner for LABRATS International and making action for recognition of the British Nuclear Test Veterans.
Videography by Eric Barton. Edited by Brian Cowden.
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