The Association mourns the recent loss of the following former colleagues:
FS Ian Kennedy Hercules Jan 22 MEng Rick Yorston Hercules/Nimrod/Tristar Dec 21 FS Roger Price 20 Oct 21 Shackleton/Hercules Sqn Ldr Ian McKay Hercules 15 Jun 21 MEng “Billy” Connolly Hercules/Tristar 29 Jan 2021 MEng Kevin Mangnall Shackleton/Nimrod MEng Archie Moffat 14 Jan 21 Shackleton/Hercules/Tristar Sqn Ldr Tom Fortune 15 Dec 20 Hercules/B707/Tristar
Roll of Honour
Listed in surname alphabetical order
Dick Angel Hercules 2019 Sqn Ldr Fred Archbold Hastings MEng Mick Ashbolt Hercules
MEng George Barnes 70 Sqn MEng Roy Beavis Shackleton/Hercules MEng Joe Belk Alan Bonnick Sgt Alfred Ivan Brandon MEng Bill Bridger Hastings/Hercules Flt Lt Nigel Brown Sgt Richard Brown Lancaster ED533/N 2 Mar 43 John Burn Hercules
Ray Carey Tenerife 25 Apr 1980 Dan Air 1008 Sgt Peter Carrie Dunkirk Veteran + Lancaster FE Flt Lt Lofty Carter Sqn Ldr Mike Cawsey Lincoln/Hastings/Comet /VC10/Tristar Sgt Peter Chadwick Nimrod Sgt Peter Coate Hercules XV198 Colerne 10 Sep 73 MEng “Billy” Connolly Hercules/Tristar 29 Jan 2021 Sqn Ldr Simon Cox Hercules/Nimrod 26 Dec 2009 FS Peter Cramp No 49 Cse Sqn Ldr Dennis Crowson
FS Ady Davies
Nimrod XV230 Afghanistan 2 Sep 06FS John Dent Lancasters 25 Jun 19 Dave Drinkwater 15 Dec 2018
Rick-Eades April 2005 Hercules-Concorde Dave Eaglestone Hercules FS Douglas Edgington Liberator MEng Bob Elrick
Sqn Ldr Tom Fortune 15 Dec 20 Hercules/B707/Tristar F/O Arthur Frederick Halifax 13th Sep 44
Graham Gibbs Hercules 23 Dec 13 MEng Terry Gilmore Hercules XV193 Glenn Loch 27 May 93 FS Steve Goddard Nimrod/VC10 Flt Lt Al Graham Hercules/B707/VC10 Sqn Ldr Jimmy Green Washington/Beverley/Hercules Sgt Ray Green Hercules/Nimrod/VC10
Sqn Ldr Nick Hamer MEng Bob Hardwicke WO Bill Harper Halifax/Stirling Sgt Sam ‘Scott’ Harris Hercules MEng Bill Harris Flt Lt Tom Hatton Hercules FO William Ian Harvey Sqn Ldr Frank Heap Beverley/Hercules MEng Les Hitchings FS Jonny Holdsworth Roy Holmwood Sqn Ldr Fran Hopkins Hercules George ‘Ginge’ Hosie Argosy Sgt Andy House 9 Feb 2020 Hercules Dick Hoyle Hercules WO James Hubbard Liberator Flt Lt Arthur Hutley DFM – Halifax Pathfinder
WO Norman Jackson VC
106 Sqn LancasterMEng Derek Jeans Dec 2020 Hercules MEng Jim Jobson Apr 2020 MEng Dougie Johnson Hercules
Flt Lt Bill Kelly Beverley FS Ian Kennedy Hercules Jan 22 FS Brian King MEng “Chuck” Knight
Sgt Roger Lamb 24 Sqn Flt Lt Ian Leddra Hercules MEng Ralph Lines MEng Dick Ludford Hercules
Sqn Ldr Ian McKay Hercules 15 Jun 21 Sqn Ldr Frank McKenna OBE 14 Feb 94 MEng Kevin Mangnall Shackleton/Nimrod FS Syd Marshall Lancaster Sqn Ldr Maultby Iain McMillan Hercules Fg Off Peter Medhurst
Hercules XV180
Fairford 24 Mar 1969Sgt Graham Miller Harris 30 Apr 1990 Shackleton WR965 MEng Archie Moffat 14 Jan 21 Shackleton/Hercules/Tristar Sgt Geoffrey Monk
12 Sqn LancasterMEng Chris Morley Hercules Sgt Gary Moxham Nimrod XV239 Toronto 02 Sep 1995
MEng John Newbold Sgt Peter Nichamin MEng Gary Nicholson
Hercules XV179
30 Jan 05Sgt Frederick North Stirling MZ261 24 May 43
FLt Lt Colin Oliver (Tornado ZA593 9 Aug 88) MEng Pete Ogden Hercules
F/O Chris Panton Halifax HX272 30 Mar 44 Sqn Ldr Trevor Peacock Sqn Ldr Fred Pennycott Hercules MEng Chris Philpott Hercules Sqn Ldr Stan Piper Sgt Frederick Patrick Platt 1 Nov 44 Halifax MZ424 FS Roger Price 20 Oct 21 Shackleton/Hercules
Sgt Bill Radcliffe DFC 617 Sqn Dambuster MEng Cliff Regan VC10 Ian Rhodes Hercules/VC10 F-27 Guernsey 12 Jan 99 MEng Dave Rimmer Nimrod Jim “Lurch” Rogers Hercules
MEng John Salt Nimrod 01 Oct 20 Schofield?? ‘Uncle Len Schofield’ Lancaster/Lincoln/ /Neptune, Shackleton/Hercules MEng Dave Simpson Nimrod/VC10/Tristar MEng Jim Skate Hercules/Tristar MEng Mo Smith Shackleton/Nimrod/Hercules Sgt Andy Stuckey Hercules 2013 MEng Richie Spence Shackleton/Nimrod/ VC10/Tristar Flt Lt Ted Stocker DSO Lancaster Dick Stratton Flt Lt Derek Stringman Hercules
Fg Off Thomas Thackary DFM Fg Off John Thomas Halifax 1 Jan 1949 Dave Tracey Hercules J Tubbs
Gareth “Wally” Walters MEng Chris Walsh Hercules Sqn Ldr Roy Waters FS Horace (Jack) West Lancaster/Lincoln 1996 Sqn Ldr Bill Wickson Hastings/Hercules Willie Williams VC10 Flt Lt Charlie Withers Mike Wyton Hercules Brian Wildman Hercules + B747 Kuwait 1990
MEng Rick Yorston Hercules/Nimrod/Tristar Dec 21
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Graham Gibbs, Hercules, 707, DC10,747 ex BCAL and BA passed away 27/12/2013 (see BCAL webb crew room) a great bloke