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Captain Frank Dance

Captain Frank Dance MBE 1884-1961
The son of a Lydbrook tinplate worker he had a distinguished World War 1 career,
first as a soldier mentioned in despatches, and later as a Captain in the Royal
Flying Corps. In 1924 he opened the Curacho factory at Lydbrook, on the site
which in later years was the Spring Water Company, where he manufactured
embrocation and other pharmaceutical products. He was ordained in 1932 and
served in  Kent, Geneva and Churchover and as chaplain at RAF Locking,
Weston-Super-Mare during World War 2. His last parish was in the Hereford area
where he died in 1961.

(Photo and details supplied by Tom Bint)

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