Pre RAF Brawdy - HMS Goldcrest
... and on 11 Nov, when I stand at the War Memorial in the little New South Wales village where I live, in addition to family members and other Fleet Air Arm friends killed on HM's service, I will remember Lieutenant David Starling, who lost his life at Brawdy in 1966 because he delayed ejecting from a Hunter T8 with an engine fire on take off, to allow his student pilot, Sub Lieutenant Peter Lewis, to eject safely; Sub Lieutenant 'Robbie' Bremner, Lagonda driver extraordinaire and 'sea daddy' at the Royal Naval College, who lost his life in a Hunter GA 11 accident in St Brides Bay in 1967; and Sub Lieutenant Gordon Still, a term mate at the Royal Naval College, who lost his life at sea in a Gannet Mk3 accident whilst a member of the then Brawdy based 849 Naval Air Squadron.
"Lest we forget".
Last edited by Argus; 8th Nov 2003 at 14:37.