Pangbourne [SEP] located next to body of water
Pangbourne
Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire. Pangbourne has its own shops, schools, a railway station on the Great Western Line and a parish hall. Outside its grouped developed area is an independent school, Pangbourne College.
Geography.
Pangbourne is situated on the A329 road west of Reading, its nearest town and south east of Oxford on the River Thames and is across the river from the small developed cluster of the Oxfordshire village of Whitchurch-on
John Hamilton Blair
John Hamilton Blair (29 July 1889 - Sep 1972) was a Scottish mariner, who was first officer aboard the SY "Aurora" during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913-14. He later served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, as the head of Pangbourne Nautical College, and returned to the Navy during the Second World War.
During his early career, he worked aboard the Loch Line, which operated between Britain and Australia