Ken, who joined the Royal Air Force in 1949, says: “At the time my sight started to go I’d been in hospital and my wife had just died, everything was going around me. I was more or less at the bottom and didn’t know how far I was going down. The first thing Blind Veterans UK did was to arrange for me to visit their training centre down in Brighton for an intro week. Just having company again did and still does make a huge difference.”