I write with great sadness that our main member of the West Pier Trust has died at the age of 82.

We all remember that terrible day in 1943 when Captain Ken Revis was blown off the pier and badly disfigured and blinded while defusing a land mine.

I can recall when Ken used to come to our meetings at the Old Ship Hotel.

He was truly the best, an officer and a gentleman and will be sadly missed by so many of us.

He is remembered at Preston Barracks where the brass Sergeants Club plate is in braille - in his memory.

I hope we may put something on the pier's entrance when it is restored.

-Gerald E Spicer, BWPT pensioner, North Road, Upper Portslade