Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
Sir Archibald's name pops up in many wartime stories. Sunderland W4026 crashed into Eagle's Rock, Caithness, on 25/08/1942. All 15 on board had supposedly perished as matched with the SOB, including the King's youngest brother, Prince George the Duke of Kent, an RAF Air Commodore on the staff of the RAF Inspector General.
When working at CSOS Brora, Sutherland in the 1970s one of the visiting telephone engineers had an MBE which he received for establishing a telephone line between the crash site and the nearest telephone exchange thus allowing Buckingham Palace to get first-hand reports from those on the scene.