I have only just found out about Dom's death, long after the event I'm afraid. I was sad to find and read this web site. Dom had a lust for life and was an enthusiastic participant in almost any experience on offer.

I knew him in Dhaka in the late 1980s where we played cricket for the Commonwealth Cricket Club, a team of expatriates and some Bangladeshis. Dom was laying fibre optic cables along the railway lines, I seem to remember.  I had been captain of the team for several years and Dom joined us on Fridays at the Bangladesh Tobacco Company sports ground where we played in the winter on a matting wicket against local teams.  He also persuaded me to try touch rugby, a game I had never played and have never played since.

But my main recollection is our cricket tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1989. In Australia Dominic and I hired a car with Bob Barton, another player, and we drove from Sydney to Melbourne, mostly on the back roads.  We also went on a day trip by train to the Hunter Valley to go on a wine tour, but when we arrived the vehicle had left, so no tour, no wine, and a 2-3 hour train ride back to Sydney. 

For a man who flew a lot he professed to be scared of flying, and before we left Bangkok on the 'plane to Sydney I seem to remember that he had two meals which, he said, was his way of coping with pre-flight nerves. Nevertheless, in New Zealand we both went up in two-seater Tiger Moth biplanes over Rotarua, and did a loop-the-loop.  We were in separate 'planes by the way, if you are wondering who flew the plane.

Dom left Bangladesh before I did and, like many people you meet in circumstances such as Dhaka where people socialise in expat clubs and people arrive and depart constantly, our paths separated.  However we did bump into each other at Heathrow several years later. He was working in Angola on an oil rig in Cabinda, I think, which gave him weeks off between stints on the rig and a flight to almost anywhere. He told me that he had just been to Antarctica but was running out of places to go.   He lived a full life, I think, cut short.

Andrew Hall