Well, from the age of 13
You know, he had all the aeroplanes
He came from a large family
And he was the eldest.
His mother, incidentally,
her father was killed in the R101,
in Northern France, I think.
And then his own father,
was killed in India in a plane crash.
So his poor mother went through her
son were being killed.
So she was very much my mentor
He loved his job, absolutely loved it,
You know,
of honour was quite telling really.
We had been in Germany for three years,
so after he did the Harrier course
we then got posted to Germany and he was
there were three squadrons out there
and he, we had a fantastic life there.
And my second daughter
Then he got posted back to Wittering
that Harriers were actually there.
Wittering was where they trained
And so the OCU was the training section
which is where we spent
And
house because we'll never
So we found a house in Kingscliffe where I
and we moved into that.
And in literally two weeks after we moved,
he was killed in a mid air collision over
Cheshire, in Cheshire,
Wettonhall near Nantwich.
Well it came, the knock on the door
because we just moved into this house,
I actually had my mother
for Christmas
they arrived,
So she moved with us from the quarter to
taking her back and forth to the hospital.
So it was a Monday 19th January
and she and I were cleaning the oven, an
old second hand oven that we'd been given.
And the knock came on the door
and he said, and he had a lady with him,
And he said to me,
And I thought he was going to say
know my father was in the hospital.
So it was a really
Obviously they came in and my mum picked
what he'd come to tell us.
I was just in shock,
so yeah, that was how I heard about it.
And then he had to go off.
My eldest daughter, who was five,
at the village school so
from school and took us all back to their
house on the base to spend the night.
So that was a Monday and the funeral
for the Friday the same week.
So he wanted us to stay overnight at his
house so that we could talk with Judy,
whose husband, you know,
so my friend Judy was the other wife
we all went to the station commander's
we'd only heard the day before
