Hi Nigel,
I don't know if you would have worked with Malcolm. I seem to remember he worked back to back with Tony Peebles (ex RN I think) so Malcolm may have been on an opposite shift to you. They were both based at Strubby but came up to NSH to help support offshore based ops.
The good thing about the Forties offshore basing was that on crew change days, the aircraft came into Longside straight after the am shuttle and didn't go back out until late afternoon for the pm shuttle with the new crew. A consequence of that was that you seldom met up with your back to back.
Sorry, a bit of a digression from the sad subject of this thread.
Hugh.