A very moving and positive thread showing that the internet has many good uses. On looking through the links mentioned previously the following poem was posted here.
The South Atlantic Medal Association 82
A tribute to E-J
This poem, entitled
Remembrance, was composed in tribute to 'E-J' by Lt Cdr David Morgan DSC, a fellow Sea Harrier pilot. 'Mog' was a good friend who later on became brilliantly successful in his own right during the Conflict
Somewhere a skylark sings
With joy, above the field and coombe
Where once he walked, soft-footed,
'Cross the deep spring-scented leys,
Where chuckling brook, cold crystal
Clear, tumbles and trills 'twixt
Banks of peppermint and thyme.
Where once his voice laughed out
In praise of field and sky,
And body swam the heady main
Of Nature's sweetest scents
Upon the passing of the rain,
And languid willows trail
Their fronded fingers though the stream.
Forever stilled now lies this voice,
Hard by some forbidding shore,
In grave unmarked, 'neath seas
That roam from Horn to Africa.
Yet lives his spirit still in Spring,
And song of birds, and scent of
Cleansing rain, in this green land ...
A fitting tribute to a brave man, a hero and by all accounts an exceptional Pilot.
I hope the many replies to your post have made you proud. My Father served as groundcrew with 1 Sqn on the Hermes during the Falklands war, They were brough back from Canada at short notice IIRC, I will ask him if he has any memories or photographs of your Father.