{"id":3547,"date":"2026-03-20T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:36:04","slug":"donald-edgar-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Captain Donald Edgar Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3548\" src=\"http:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Don-Bulawayo-Rhodesia-1965.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My Daddy named me after Captain Donald Edgar Wills who was a pilot in the Royal Air Force. My Dad, Douglas Norman Foster, was an aircraft mechanic in the RAF, so I guess he was Don\u2019s mechanic. My Dad was sent from England to Salisbury Rhodesia to fix planes, but was later recalled back to England during the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, in 1996, I got a phone call from Captain Donald Edgar Wills, but I wasn\u2019t at the house when he called, so I called him back. He was somewhere in the States where he was visiting a friend. He told me that he came to see me in the hospital in Salisbury Rhodesia in 1966 when I had a cracked spine. He said he was with my Uncle Geoff Cartwright. I didn\u2019t realize he was with my Uncle Geoff. My second name is Geoffrey, named after my Uncle. Someone had smuggled my guitar into the hospital, and I remember singing a song for them about the story in the Book of Ezekiel 37:10: \u201cThese old bones are gonna rise again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From about 1998 to 2003 I was doing night shift taxi driving in Welland Ontario Canada. I remember giving a ride to an old man who told me he flew planes in Africa, and one time somebody put the wrong fuel into his plane. I can\u2019t remember all the details, but apparently it caused big trouble. The last time I saw the man he said he wanted me to give him a ride, but he was near a taxi rank. So I told him he had to go to the taxi rank, but he insisted that he wanted to come with me. I told him it was against the rules. That is the last time that I saw him.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, I wondered if it was Captain Donald Edgar Wills who was spying on me to see how I was doing.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody knows anything about this, feel free to contact me at <a href=\"mailto:donguitar2@gmail.com\">donguitar2@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Daddy named me after Captain Donald Edgar Wills who was a pilot in the Royal Air Force. My Dad, Douglas Norman Foster, was an aircraft mechanic in the RAF, so I guess he was Don\u2019s mechanic. My Dad was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/?p=3547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1GvAs-Vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/favourite-love-songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}