Ron Gordon – Not recognised by daughter after growing beard on 2 month deployment

My longest deployment was nine and a half weeks I think. You come off and you’re in a process in those five days of handing it over to the other crew.

You meet your family, you come into Coulport, and the support crews would have arranged busses or told the families and they’d be there in their cars or whatever to meet you when you get alongside the jetty in Coulport.

Simon: What’s that like?

Oh, brilliant, except once when I grew a beard on patrol, and I came off and I was walking along the jetty and my kids were running towards me and daughter ran right past me.

She didn’t recognise me.

I’d been away for two months, and she was about five or six at the time, just didn’t recognise me.