Willie - wasn't it Guy Gibson's (Leader of RAF 617 Squadron in the Dams raid and after) dog who was called 'Nigger'? Maybe they both had a Nigger?

Gibson's Nigger was killed by a car the night before the dams raid, and buried by the gates of Scampton airfield (the legend goes that he was buried at midnight while Gibson was on the dams raid, Gibson's thought being that he and Nigger might well be going into the ground at the same time). There used to be a stone marking Nigger's grave by the roadside years ago, but not any more.

Not really anything to do with this thread, but interesting local (for me) history.