Brittle Days - A Tribute to Nick Drake is a 1992 compilation album released by Imaginary Records in the UK. The album features contemporary artists performing cover versions of songs by Nick Drake. Imaginary Records, most notably home The Chameleons and similar new-wave UK bands, was greatly influenced by Drake.
It received a 2/5 star rating at AllMusic. Critic Wilson Neate praised the covers by The Changelings and The Walkabouts, but wrote that "Unfortunately, many of the adaptations on Brittle Days are forgettable, or perhaps best forgotten ... More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that, although both Drake's peers and subsequent generations of musicians have heaped accolades on his work, this album features few prominent names."
Track listing
# The Changelings - "River Man"
# The High Llamas - "At the Chime of a City Clock"
# Loop - "Pink Moon"
# No-Man - "Road"
# The Walkabouts - "Cello Song"
# Shelleyan Orphan - "Joey"
# Scott Appel - "From the Morning"
# The Times - "Fruit Tree"
# Martyn Bates - "Know"
# Swinging Swine - "Voice from the Mountain"
# Nikki Sudden & The French Revolution - "Time Has Told Me"
# Tracy Santa - "Fly"
# Clive Gregson - "Northern Sky"
# Scott Appel - "Hazy Jane"
# R. Stevie Moore - "River Man"
It received a 2/5 star rating at AllMusic. Critic Wilson Neate praised the covers by The Changelings and The Walkabouts, but wrote that "Unfortunately, many of the adaptations on Brittle Days are forgettable, or perhaps best forgotten ... More surprising, perhaps, is the fact that, although both Drake's peers and subsequent generations of musicians have heaped accolades on his work, this album features few prominent names."
Track listing
# The Changelings - "River Man"
# The High Llamas - "At the Chime of a City Clock"
# Loop - "Pink Moon"
# No-Man - "Road"
# The Walkabouts - "Cello Song"
# Shelleyan Orphan - "Joey"
# Scott Appel - "From the Morning"
# The Times - "Fruit Tree"
# Martyn Bates - "Know"
# Swinging Swine - "Voice from the Mountain"
# Nikki Sudden & The French Revolution - "Time Has Told Me"
# Tracy Santa - "Fly"
# Clive Gregson - "Northern Sky"
# Scott Appel - "Hazy Jane"
# R. Stevie Moore - "River Man"
Carousel is a learning disability led arts organization founded in Brighton, as a charity, in 1982. Carousel promotes the active involvement of people with a learning disability in the arts, managing projects by and for learning disabled people, thus enabling them 'to develop and manage their creative lives, true to their voice and vision, challenging expectations of what great art is and who can create it.' Carousel works in music, radio, performance, digital media and film. Initiatives include the international Oska Bright Film Festival and Creative Minds, a national conversation about learning disability arts.
High Spin
One of Carousel's first projects was to create an integrated dance company, in which the majority of performers had learning disabilities. This was originally called The Carousel Dance Company and, from 1993, High Spin. Ingrid Ashberry, High Spin's artistic director, told the reviewer Annie Wells, 'Ensuring that the company is 'performer-led' has always been an overriding priority. There is no in-house choreographer as such and the dancers are encouraged to draw on their own experiences, explore their own ideas and evolve their own movement.'
In 1989, the company worked with the choreographers Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie to create Banda Banda. Aggiss described the creative process: 'We gave the performers their voice, inviting each to talk about aspects of their lives. In one section, a sparse gestural piece arose from Outsider Performer Eric Grantham's visit to Brighton's Booth Bird Museum and his subsequent interest in flying.' 'Banda Banda' was performed at the ICA in December 1989, and went on to win the 1990 Time Out/Dance Umbrella Award. According to the Time Out review, 'Banda Banda shatters the comfortable illusion that art is to be revered as the special preserve of the gifted few. The performance stresses that the arts are an invaluable means of self expression and that creativity is latent in, and essential to, everyone, whether they are labelled as amateur, professional, disabled or not.'
Aggiss and Cowie created three more shows with the company: La Soupe (1990), The Surgeon's Waltz (2000) and Rice Rain (2001). Other choreographers who worked with High Spin included Rose English, Ben Craft, Laurie Booth, Miriam King, and Maxine Doyle.
Reviewing the 2015 festival in Disability Arts Online, Colin Hambrook wrote that Oska Bright presented "a unique outpouring of expression on film offering a very different vision of the world to the kinds of perspective we are used to on our television screens and in the cinema. It's that uniqueness that gives Oska Bright its energy and pizzazz With each festival the evidence of growing confidence and the strength of the disabled voices coming through, grows more compelling Even more impressive is the fact that Oska Bright has reached 28,000 people worldwide since the last festival in 2013, which is truly phenomenal."
Carousel Radio
Carousel has also created a radio show, originally called Shut Up and Listen, and now Carousel Radio. The show is aired on Radio Reverb at 2 pm on the first Sunday of each month, and then repeated the following Monday at 8 am, Wednesday at 4 pm and Friday at 5 am. It is also available as a podcast through iTunes. For the show, Carousel invite people with a learning disability to contribute poems, short stories, radio plays, music and sound art. Each show has its own theme, such as "Body and Health", "Mistakes", "Night Time", "Family" and "Travel".
Carousel Musicians
Carousel stages a regular live music night, The Rock House, which takes place at Brighton's Green Door Store and West Hill Hall. Performers include Carousel bands Zombie Crash, Sabien Gator, Daniel Wakeford, Beat Express, and Fuzzbomb Flash Band, as well as guest musicians from around the UK. The event was launched in September 2009 by musicians Richard Phoenix (Constant Flux) and Tom Cook, to provide opportunities for musicians with learning disabilities to perform their music live in Brighton. Since 2012, the Rock House has been co-produced by Carousel and Constant Flux. The Brighton event was so successful that it led to UK tours for some of the performers.
Richard Phoenix told The Guardian that the aim was enable learning disabled musicians 'to perform live to integrated audiences in environments that aren't necessarily so safe, where it's not just a learning disability event. We want musicians to be part of the wider community and part of the wider music scene.'
In 2013, Zombie Crash, Carousel's learning disabled metal band, toured the UK, supporting the Finnish learning disabled punk band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (PKN). The music video for their song Hardcore on Tour was later premiered on the Louder than War website. Guy Manchester of Louder than War described Zombie Crash as a "British learning disabled metal band who're attempting to reach out to a mainstream audience - and on the strength of the video...I'd say they totally deserve to achieve their goal." The video also impressed Radio 6 Music DJ Marc Riley, who tweeted, "These fellas are so cool They've learning disabilities but are riding a Heavy Metal Beast! I salute em!"
Zombie Crash's first London gig, in 2014, was sold out, with around 700 people attending. According to Richard Phoenix, "A lot of audience members said they didn't know what to expect or how they were going to react to the musicians but in the end people were just into the music and forgot they were watching people with learning disabilities." With Carousel, Wakeford has recorded three albums of his own "nakedly emotional" songs, and regularly performs live. His song "The Black of Lonely" was the UK's entry to the 2014 European Song Festival.
Creatures of the Revolution is a 2016 collaboration between the band Sabien Gator (Fraser Caygill, Stephen Barnett and Shaun Moor), performer Matthew Hellett (aka Mrs Sparkle) and digital artists Sarah Watson and Jason Eade, with Simon Wilkinson (Circa69). The band perform live against video projections and film, in a "journey into a gothic fairy tale blurs the lines between reality and imagination". The show, funded by Youth Music, was performed as part of London's South Bank Centre Unlimited Festival on 6 September 2016.
The Blue Camel Club
The Blue Camel Club is a Brighton club night, held four times a year in Brighton's Corn Exchange. A typical line-up was described in 2015 in Disability Arts Online: "Carousel's Blue Camel Club is the big night out for hundreds of learning disabled music and dance fanatics in Brighton and beyond. This month's line-up features London band The AutistiX, drum ensemble Unified Rhythm, the fabulous solo artist Catherine O'Rourke and the ever popular Carousel Singers. There are DJ's, roaming radio reporters and films from the Oska Bright Film Festival. It's the place to meet friends, hear great music and dance the night away, run and presented by a learning disabled team." Carousel has worked in partnership with West Sussex Arts Partnership to develop other Blue Camel styled clubs across West Sussex including the Blue Wave, Blue Oasis, Blue Starfish and Blue Bird clubs in Bognor Regis, Horsham, Worthing and Crawley.
Gold Run
For Carousel's 30th birthday in 2012, the organisation collaborated with the music education department at Glyndebourne and artists from the Pallant House "Outside In" project to create Goldrun. This was a Cultural Olympiad show telling the story of the Special Olympics through song, film, music and visual arts. Goldrun featured Carousel's new choir of 25 learning disabled people aged 16-35. They were helped by Glyndebourne to write a musical score, using their own words to tell the story. The show was performed at Glyndebourne, the Brighton Corn Exchange and Chichester Festival Theatre.
Creative Minds
Creative Minds, launched by Carousel in 2013, is a national conversation about learning disability art, and where it sits in the wider arts world. It encourages debate and discussion amongst those who set artistic agendas - from artists to venues, arts organisations to critics. Gus Garside, co-ordinator of Creative Minds, said, "We know that work created by learning disabled artists and performers is not significantly represented in venues and galleries. It's only by candidly discussing the barriers that we can begin to remove them."
In March 2014, Creative Minds organised a conference at Brighton Dome, bringing together arts organisations, venues, producers, critics and learning disabled artists and performers. Arts critic Bella Todd discussed the issues raised: "It's a bold question to pose, especially at a time when funding cuts conspire to put all creative organisations on the defensive: how do we perceive, discuss and measure quality in work by artists with learning disabilities? It was the kind of conference, inevitably, where every answer seeds two more questions, complicated by the fact we're lumping together artists with diverse disabilities, working in different art forms, with varying levels of professional engagement. And that's before you get started on the subject of how we decide any art is 'good' in the first place. But I came away feeling how vital it is that we do have this conversation."
Since the first conference there have been four more, in Bristol (2014), Ipswich (2015), Manchester (2017) and Birmingham (2017)
Curing Perfect
In 2015, Carousel launched Curing Perfect, an interactive online graphic novel, available as an iPhone app. It was created by a team of learning disabled artists, collaborating with the digital artists Alex Peckham (Blast Theory), Simon Wilkinson (Circa69) and June Jones and Geoffrey Brown of the University of Birmingham. Curing Perfect uses digital media to engage the public in the difficult issues of "curing" disability and creating the perfect person. According to Becky Bruzas, Curing Perfect speaker and presenter, "A year ago I read an article that claimed Downs Syndrome could be cured. It made me think about my condition, which is incurable, and about the future and what could happen."
Curing Perfect storyline has three chapters, allowing the player to move through various locations in an imagined city, represented on a map. As they explore the city, players are challenged to create the perfect person and interact with what they find. The imagined world has been illustrated by William Hanekom, with a story-line by Jason Eade, who are both learning disabled. The game is voiced by actress Sarah Gordy (Call the Midwife) and other learning disabled artists.
Training
Carousel runs a broad range of training activities and workshops. Each year, around 12 learning disabled artists are supported to achieve Arts Awards certificates. The charity also trains learning disabled artists to become Arts Award assessors. The Volunteers Training Course is a series of practical sessions linked to different areas of Carousel's work. Each year 10 people train alongside the artform teams, gaining the necessary skills to support learning disabled artists. Workshops for schools and organisations, and training for venue staff also form part of the company's core activity.
In 2016, Carousel produced Nothing About Me Without Me, a disability equality teaching and learning resource for PSHE education, for Brighton and Hove City Council. The title is a slogan "adopted by the Disability Movement in the 1990s to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group(s) affected by that policy."
High Spin
One of Carousel's first projects was to create an integrated dance company, in which the majority of performers had learning disabilities. This was originally called The Carousel Dance Company and, from 1993, High Spin. Ingrid Ashberry, High Spin's artistic director, told the reviewer Annie Wells, 'Ensuring that the company is 'performer-led' has always been an overriding priority. There is no in-house choreographer as such and the dancers are encouraged to draw on their own experiences, explore their own ideas and evolve their own movement.'
In 1989, the company worked with the choreographers Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie to create Banda Banda. Aggiss described the creative process: 'We gave the performers their voice, inviting each to talk about aspects of their lives. In one section, a sparse gestural piece arose from Outsider Performer Eric Grantham's visit to Brighton's Booth Bird Museum and his subsequent interest in flying.' 'Banda Banda' was performed at the ICA in December 1989, and went on to win the 1990 Time Out/Dance Umbrella Award. According to the Time Out review, 'Banda Banda shatters the comfortable illusion that art is to be revered as the special preserve of the gifted few. The performance stresses that the arts are an invaluable means of self expression and that creativity is latent in, and essential to, everyone, whether they are labelled as amateur, professional, disabled or not.'
Aggiss and Cowie created three more shows with the company: La Soupe (1990), The Surgeon's Waltz (2000) and Rice Rain (2001). Other choreographers who worked with High Spin included Rose English, Ben Craft, Laurie Booth, Miriam King, and Maxine Doyle.
Reviewing the 2015 festival in Disability Arts Online, Colin Hambrook wrote that Oska Bright presented "a unique outpouring of expression on film offering a very different vision of the world to the kinds of perspective we are used to on our television screens and in the cinema. It's that uniqueness that gives Oska Bright its energy and pizzazz With each festival the evidence of growing confidence and the strength of the disabled voices coming through, grows more compelling Even more impressive is the fact that Oska Bright has reached 28,000 people worldwide since the last festival in 2013, which is truly phenomenal."
Carousel Radio
Carousel has also created a radio show, originally called Shut Up and Listen, and now Carousel Radio. The show is aired on Radio Reverb at 2 pm on the first Sunday of each month, and then repeated the following Monday at 8 am, Wednesday at 4 pm and Friday at 5 am. It is also available as a podcast through iTunes. For the show, Carousel invite people with a learning disability to contribute poems, short stories, radio plays, music and sound art. Each show has its own theme, such as "Body and Health", "Mistakes", "Night Time", "Family" and "Travel".
Carousel Musicians
Carousel stages a regular live music night, The Rock House, which takes place at Brighton's Green Door Store and West Hill Hall. Performers include Carousel bands Zombie Crash, Sabien Gator, Daniel Wakeford, Beat Express, and Fuzzbomb Flash Band, as well as guest musicians from around the UK. The event was launched in September 2009 by musicians Richard Phoenix (Constant Flux) and Tom Cook, to provide opportunities for musicians with learning disabilities to perform their music live in Brighton. Since 2012, the Rock House has been co-produced by Carousel and Constant Flux. The Brighton event was so successful that it led to UK tours for some of the performers.
Richard Phoenix told The Guardian that the aim was enable learning disabled musicians 'to perform live to integrated audiences in environments that aren't necessarily so safe, where it's not just a learning disability event. We want musicians to be part of the wider community and part of the wider music scene.'
In 2013, Zombie Crash, Carousel's learning disabled metal band, toured the UK, supporting the Finnish learning disabled punk band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (PKN). The music video for their song Hardcore on Tour was later premiered on the Louder than War website. Guy Manchester of Louder than War described Zombie Crash as a "British learning disabled metal band who're attempting to reach out to a mainstream audience - and on the strength of the video...I'd say they totally deserve to achieve their goal." The video also impressed Radio 6 Music DJ Marc Riley, who tweeted, "These fellas are so cool They've learning disabilities but are riding a Heavy Metal Beast! I salute em!"
Zombie Crash's first London gig, in 2014, was sold out, with around 700 people attending. According to Richard Phoenix, "A lot of audience members said they didn't know what to expect or how they were going to react to the musicians but in the end people were just into the music and forgot they were watching people with learning disabilities." With Carousel, Wakeford has recorded three albums of his own "nakedly emotional" songs, and regularly performs live. His song "The Black of Lonely" was the UK's entry to the 2014 European Song Festival.
Creatures of the Revolution is a 2016 collaboration between the band Sabien Gator (Fraser Caygill, Stephen Barnett and Shaun Moor), performer Matthew Hellett (aka Mrs Sparkle) and digital artists Sarah Watson and Jason Eade, with Simon Wilkinson (Circa69). The band perform live against video projections and film, in a "journey into a gothic fairy tale blurs the lines between reality and imagination". The show, funded by Youth Music, was performed as part of London's South Bank Centre Unlimited Festival on 6 September 2016.
The Blue Camel Club
The Blue Camel Club is a Brighton club night, held four times a year in Brighton's Corn Exchange. A typical line-up was described in 2015 in Disability Arts Online: "Carousel's Blue Camel Club is the big night out for hundreds of learning disabled music and dance fanatics in Brighton and beyond. This month's line-up features London band The AutistiX, drum ensemble Unified Rhythm, the fabulous solo artist Catherine O'Rourke and the ever popular Carousel Singers. There are DJ's, roaming radio reporters and films from the Oska Bright Film Festival. It's the place to meet friends, hear great music and dance the night away, run and presented by a learning disabled team." Carousel has worked in partnership with West Sussex Arts Partnership to develop other Blue Camel styled clubs across West Sussex including the Blue Wave, Blue Oasis, Blue Starfish and Blue Bird clubs in Bognor Regis, Horsham, Worthing and Crawley.
Gold Run
For Carousel's 30th birthday in 2012, the organisation collaborated with the music education department at Glyndebourne and artists from the Pallant House "Outside In" project to create Goldrun. This was a Cultural Olympiad show telling the story of the Special Olympics through song, film, music and visual arts. Goldrun featured Carousel's new choir of 25 learning disabled people aged 16-35. They were helped by Glyndebourne to write a musical score, using their own words to tell the story. The show was performed at Glyndebourne, the Brighton Corn Exchange and Chichester Festival Theatre.
Creative Minds
Creative Minds, launched by Carousel in 2013, is a national conversation about learning disability art, and where it sits in the wider arts world. It encourages debate and discussion amongst those who set artistic agendas - from artists to venues, arts organisations to critics. Gus Garside, co-ordinator of Creative Minds, said, "We know that work created by learning disabled artists and performers is not significantly represented in venues and galleries. It's only by candidly discussing the barriers that we can begin to remove them."
In March 2014, Creative Minds organised a conference at Brighton Dome, bringing together arts organisations, venues, producers, critics and learning disabled artists and performers. Arts critic Bella Todd discussed the issues raised: "It's a bold question to pose, especially at a time when funding cuts conspire to put all creative organisations on the defensive: how do we perceive, discuss and measure quality in work by artists with learning disabilities? It was the kind of conference, inevitably, where every answer seeds two more questions, complicated by the fact we're lumping together artists with diverse disabilities, working in different art forms, with varying levels of professional engagement. And that's before you get started on the subject of how we decide any art is 'good' in the first place. But I came away feeling how vital it is that we do have this conversation."
Since the first conference there have been four more, in Bristol (2014), Ipswich (2015), Manchester (2017) and Birmingham (2017)
Curing Perfect
In 2015, Carousel launched Curing Perfect, an interactive online graphic novel, available as an iPhone app. It was created by a team of learning disabled artists, collaborating with the digital artists Alex Peckham (Blast Theory), Simon Wilkinson (Circa69) and June Jones and Geoffrey Brown of the University of Birmingham. Curing Perfect uses digital media to engage the public in the difficult issues of "curing" disability and creating the perfect person. According to Becky Bruzas, Curing Perfect speaker and presenter, "A year ago I read an article that claimed Downs Syndrome could be cured. It made me think about my condition, which is incurable, and about the future and what could happen."
Curing Perfect storyline has three chapters, allowing the player to move through various locations in an imagined city, represented on a map. As they explore the city, players are challenged to create the perfect person and interact with what they find. The imagined world has been illustrated by William Hanekom, with a story-line by Jason Eade, who are both learning disabled. The game is voiced by actress Sarah Gordy (Call the Midwife) and other learning disabled artists.
Training
Carousel runs a broad range of training activities and workshops. Each year, around 12 learning disabled artists are supported to achieve Arts Awards certificates. The charity also trains learning disabled artists to become Arts Award assessors. The Volunteers Training Course is a series of practical sessions linked to different areas of Carousel's work. Each year 10 people train alongside the artform teams, gaining the necessary skills to support learning disabled artists. Workshops for schools and organisations, and training for venue staff also form part of the company's core activity.
In 2016, Carousel produced Nothing About Me Without Me, a disability equality teaching and learning resource for PSHE education, for Brighton and Hove City Council. The title is a slogan "adopted by the Disability Movement in the 1990s to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group(s) affected by that policy."
Bhav Dhillon is a New Zealand businessman of Indian origin, residing in Auckland.
He is currently the Honorary Consul of India with jurisdiction over Auckland, Northland and Waikato, and was appointed to this role by the Government of India in October 2017 as part of its initiative to expand outreach in New Zealand.
He is the chair of the youth charity There's a Better Way Foundation.
He is an advocate of India-New Zealand trade and community issues and has been involved in the Indian diaspora in New Zealand since 2003.
Dhillon worked to organise the first visit of the President of India Pranab Mukherjee to New Zealand in 2016, and is an advocate of direct flights between India and New Zealand].
He organises Indian diaspora organisations to jointly celebrate the Independence Day of India.
Dhillon also launched the first ever New Zealand postage stamp honouring the Punjabi language.
He has worked to repatriate to India the remains of persons of Indian origin.
Career
He is the managing director of Cemix, founded in 1991 in New Zealand.
He is also the Chair of There’s a Better Way Foundation which functions in association with Auckland Council, NZ Police, and other similar organizations for bringing positive changes in the lives of Kiwi youth at risk of drugs and gang culture.
Awards and recognition
On 23 January 2019, he was conferred the Pravasi Samman Award, the highest Indian diaspora award by the former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind.
He was conferred with a special award to commemorate the 550th Parkash Purb Celebrations of Guru Nanak by the Chief Minister of Punjab on November 10, 2019.
He was awarded the Herald on Sunday's "Sideline Champs" Award in 2013 for his contributions to creating Pathways of Change for Kiwi youths at risk of drugs.
He was a finalist for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment's annual Green Ribbon Awards.
He is currently the Honorary Consul of India with jurisdiction over Auckland, Northland and Waikato, and was appointed to this role by the Government of India in October 2017 as part of its initiative to expand outreach in New Zealand.
He is the chair of the youth charity There's a Better Way Foundation.
He is an advocate of India-New Zealand trade and community issues and has been involved in the Indian diaspora in New Zealand since 2003.
Dhillon worked to organise the first visit of the President of India Pranab Mukherjee to New Zealand in 2016, and is an advocate of direct flights between India and New Zealand].
He organises Indian diaspora organisations to jointly celebrate the Independence Day of India.
Dhillon also launched the first ever New Zealand postage stamp honouring the Punjabi language.
He has worked to repatriate to India the remains of persons of Indian origin.
Career
He is the managing director of Cemix, founded in 1991 in New Zealand.
He is also the Chair of There’s a Better Way Foundation which functions in association with Auckland Council, NZ Police, and other similar organizations for bringing positive changes in the lives of Kiwi youth at risk of drugs and gang culture.
Awards and recognition
On 23 January 2019, he was conferred the Pravasi Samman Award, the highest Indian diaspora award by the former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind.
He was conferred with a special award to commemorate the 550th Parkash Purb Celebrations of Guru Nanak by the Chief Minister of Punjab on November 10, 2019.
He was awarded the Herald on Sunday's "Sideline Champs" Award in 2013 for his contributions to creating Pathways of Change for Kiwi youths at risk of drugs.
He was a finalist for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment's annual Green Ribbon Awards.
Colonel Clifford Mayhew Dodkins (October 1914 - June 1974), known to his fellow officers as "Dodders", was a British Army officer, intelligence specialist and later author of books on Third Reich Militaria. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1946, the Order of the British Empire in 1957 and the Commander of the British Empire in the New Years Honours List 1967.
He also amassed a well known collection of militaria which was sold by his widow some years after his death, in 1987.
War time service
Dodkins was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1935, and after the Partition he transferred to the British Service until 1966, when he retired and returned to England, where he continued to serve with the army until his retirement in 1973.
His wartime service included time with the 8th Light Cavalry, 1st Ghurkhas and 3rd Carabiniers.
Intelligence work and interests
He was an acknowledged authority on the Imperial German Army and its successors until 1945 and amassed a substantial collection of badges and medals from this era.
Intelligence work
He was employed as an intelligence Officer towards the end of the war, he used this opportunity to expand his collection of rare and sought after Imperial and Nazi German awards.
Obituary
After his death in 1974, his obituary was published in The Bulletin of the Military History Society.
Sale of militaria collection
His widow sold his collection of Imperial and Nazi German Militaria by auction in April and June 1987.
It notably included many rare awards such as the 20th Juli Wound Badge and the Pour le Mérite, or "Blue Max"
Written works
He was the author or co-author of a number of books on Imperial and Third Reich German badges, medals and regalia.
Some of his works include:
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich, Volumes 1 and 2 by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich Including the City of Danzig by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich (including, awards of German "Volksgruppen" outside the Reich, the pro-Nazi parties of occupied Western Europe, and also the puppet states of Croatia and Slovakia) by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
Bibliography
* Littlejohn, David; Dodkins, Colonel C.M. (1968) Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich Including the City of Danzig. Volume 1. R. James Bender Publishing, California.
* Littlejohn, David; Dodkins, Colonel C. M. (1973). Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich. Volume 2. R. James Bender Publishing, California.
* Littlejohn, M.A., A.L.A. and Dodkins Colonel C.M, C.B.E., D.S.O. (1974) Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich (including, awards of German "Volksgruppen" outside the Reich, the pro-Nazi parties of occupied Western Europe, and also the puppet states of Croatia and Slovakia) Volume 2.
He also amassed a well known collection of militaria which was sold by his widow some years after his death, in 1987.
War time service
Dodkins was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1935, and after the Partition he transferred to the British Service until 1966, when he retired and returned to England, where he continued to serve with the army until his retirement in 1973.
His wartime service included time with the 8th Light Cavalry, 1st Ghurkhas and 3rd Carabiniers.
Intelligence work and interests
He was an acknowledged authority on the Imperial German Army and its successors until 1945 and amassed a substantial collection of badges and medals from this era.
Intelligence work
He was employed as an intelligence Officer towards the end of the war, he used this opportunity to expand his collection of rare and sought after Imperial and Nazi German awards.
Obituary
After his death in 1974, his obituary was published in The Bulletin of the Military History Society.
Sale of militaria collection
His widow sold his collection of Imperial and Nazi German Militaria by auction in April and June 1987.
It notably included many rare awards such as the 20th Juli Wound Badge and the Pour le Mérite, or "Blue Max"
Written works
He was the author or co-author of a number of books on Imperial and Third Reich German badges, medals and regalia.
Some of his works include:
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich, Volumes 1 and 2 by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich Including the City of Danzig by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
* Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich (including, awards of German "Volksgruppen" outside the Reich, the pro-Nazi parties of occupied Western Europe, and also the puppet states of Croatia and Slovakia) by D. Littlejohn and C.M. Dodkins
Bibliography
* Littlejohn, David; Dodkins, Colonel C.M. (1968) Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich Including the City of Danzig. Volume 1. R. James Bender Publishing, California.
* Littlejohn, David; Dodkins, Colonel C. M. (1973). Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich. Volume 2. R. James Bender Publishing, California.
* Littlejohn, M.A., A.L.A. and Dodkins Colonel C.M, C.B.E., D.S.O. (1974) Orders, Decorations, Medals and Badges of the Third Reich (including, awards of German "Volksgruppen" outside the Reich, the pro-Nazi parties of occupied Western Europe, and also the puppet states of Croatia and Slovakia) Volume 2.