Back in Lockdown...

Yesterday 4 cases of Covid with unknown origin were found so we’re more or less in lockdown. More detail will follow in the lunchtime media briefing. I believe half the population are now queueing outside supermarkets... I meant to go food shopping this morning but will make do with what I have for a few days. I have plenty of wine but NO CHOCOLATE. That could cause an emergency situation.
So today blip pic is the cover of the book I took the story of today’s Guernseyman. Not a major achievement though very important back when he came up with the idea.
Douglas William Gumbley CBE (1880-1973)
The Guernsey-born Air Letter Pioneer
Born in Guernsey on 14 August 1880, Douglas Gumbley was mentioned in dispatches in the First World War and was also created on Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. 
In 1919 he became Inspector -General of Posts and Telegraphs and also Director of Civil Aviation in Iraq (then a British Mandate under the League of Nations) a post which he held until 1934 and during the tenure of which he designed the first Air Mail Letter-Card. 
He was advanced to a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire while serving as Director of Civil Aviation in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1934 until his retirement in 1947. 
He died on 5 February 1973.