Castlecliff's battling matelot has defied the odds again. Returned Serviceman Trevor Humphrey never expected to complete his latest task because of failing health. But the sailor who has done so much for his fellow servicemen has completed an assignment that he originally thought was "too much of a monumental task." Mr Humphrey'sbook Do Shadows Leave Footprints? is to be launched in Wanganui on October 14. The biography comes with a CD. Mr Humphrey has been the life and soul of organisations seeking compensation for servicemen from the nuclear age. An observer of nuclear bomb tests, which he believes led to his health problems, he first formed Pixie (Personnel Involved in the Christmas Island Experience), in 1983, and then Rimpac (from Pacific Rim) after initially establishing that he could not get a pension for himself and his wife, Margaret. Rimpac has grown to a worldwide organisation with more than 2000 members, with Mr Humphrey's advocacy winning pensions for grateful colleagues. The October 14 book launch, by invitation, is at the Wanganui Vintage Car Club premises at 4pm (1600 hrs).
