Many thanks for that; it is much appreciated. His father was AVM Eric Plumtree DFC who survived a tour on Blenheim IVs with 53 Squadron during which he survived a particularly vicious attack by three Bf 110s.
He still had lumps of Oerliken cannon shell floating around in his head when I first met him 20 years ago.
It always seemed to me particularly ironic that his son should be killed in peacetime on a training flight.
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