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Gerry Crocker, 90 years young and a member of the Sidmouth group, took on a sponsored 90 minute walk along Sidmouth Esplanade raising more than £900 for the Royal British Legion.  Gerry has been nominated to carry a torch in the London 2012 Olympic Games, some 63 years after he carried the flame in August 1948 before the Olympic Games were last staged in London. He still has the torch he held aloft for 15 minutes on a relay between Alphington, Exeter and Hembury House in Peamore.  A Chief Petty Officer in the Navy at the time, Gerry was invited to run on behalf of the Royal Navy Royal Marines Athletics Club Plymouth Command. He was unknowingly put forward to take part in next year’s 70 day torch relay by wife Viv and daughter Jill, and only found out when they received e-mails saying he’d been entered into a ballot. Viv said she’d put Gerry forward as a ‘joke’. “I’d have to go and hold him up if he was selected” she said.
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