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Sally Morris RIP

Syd dropped me a line to tell me that Sally Morris died last Saturday (27 June). She had been ill for some time but the end, when it came, was quite sudden.

The funeral will be at Pewsey Parish Church at 1300 on Friday 10 July, followed by a cremation and a wake at the […]

Ron Pattinson R.I.P.

Received the sad news from the HFA that Ron Pattinson died last week.

Ron served on IV Sqn from 1976 to 1979 as a pilot, QFI, IRE and Deputy Flight Commander at Wildenrath and Gutersloh when the Sqn was equipped with the Harrier GR1/T2/GR3 and T4. When he left the Sqn he served a short […]

Dave Binnie RIP

1973 Binns Red 6

 

From Liliane:

Dear Friends, It is with deep sadness that I must tell you that David passed away very peacefully at 15.10 this afternoon (22 August). He was comfortable and pain-free to the end and we were with him. The Memorial Service to farewell David will take place […]

Mo Tiwana R.I.P

From Mo’s wife Minna:

We are bidding farewell to Mo on Friday 11th July 2014.

The Ceremony will commence at 12:45 in Gurudwara Sahib Garib Nawaj, Springfield Rd., Hayes, UB4 0LT.

From there , the procession moves onto Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, HA4 7SJ, via RAF Northolt , arriving promptly at 14:30. Here Friends and Colleagues […]

Flt Lt Bill “Shafer” Shepherd

From Frank Tewkesbury (now living on the Gold Coast in Australia):

Trying to make contact with ex-Flt Lt Bill “Shafer” Shepherd who was a Swift aerobatics pilot at RAF Gutersloh between 1961-1964. He used to live at Redland in Bristol but where he is now, only he knows. I was an SAC and used to […]

Brian Liversidge

From Jack Cobb:

I have been asked by Susan Liversidge to inform the Sqn that her husband, Wg Cdr(Retd) Brian Liversidge died on 20 Oct 13. Brian was your sites operations officer at Wildenrath from 1972 to 1975. He was again with the HF at Gutersloh in 1985 when he commanded 33 Wg RAF Regt. […]

Update from Kevin Marsh

Hi Chris, I thought I owed you an update for the fourfax website.

The day after I handed over Command of IV Sqn in June, I flew out from RAF Brize Norton to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan where I am currently serving as Chief of Staff (Operations) at 904 Expeditionary Air Wing.

IV Sqn […]

Gp Capt Peter Gilpin RIP

30th September 1922 – 19th January 2013

Gp Capt Peter William Gilpin CBE DFC has died after a short illness, at the age of 90 and he is survived by his wife, Helen, and family.

Comm’d 19 Jun 42 Gp Capt 1 Jul 65 Ret’d 30 Sep 77

Beloved husband of Helen, adored […]

John “Taff” Evans

It is with regret I have to inform you of the tragic death of John “Taff” Evans in a motorbike accident at the weekend.

He was groundcrew on 1 Sqn, the OCU, and was a much loved 4 Sqn FLM in the early 80s. He was living in Stamford until the latter part of […]

Lost Members

All of the people on this list previously registered with us as members but have since changed their email addresses. If anybody has contact details for any of these members, please let them know about the Centenary and let me have their new address – thanks!

Dave Adcroft, Fitter (Eng), 85-90, Gutersloh

Jim Andrews, […]

Stalwarts at HFA2

Pete Mears, Roy Harrison and Bob Grant at HFA2 Wittering

Photo: Pete Mears

David Sanders

Anyone have a contact number or email for Dave Sanders? Cottesmore 1999 onwards. The details I’ve got are way out of date…

From Schoolboy to Station Commander

Gp Capt John ‘Jock’ Heron OBE’s autobiographical memoirs “From Schoolboy to Station Commander” has just been published by the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust. It is on sale for £15 to members or £20 for non-members.

Jock served on IV at Wildenrath in the early 70s when the Sqn was flying the Harrier GR1/T2. He’s a regular […]

Chris Johnson – Service & Funeral

John Wickham has advised me that the service for Chris will be on Monday 30 Jan at 12 noon at St Mary’s Church, Scarborough with internment at 1.30pm. Uniforms may be worn if wanted, wreaths can be sent from sections or units, otherwise Susan would prefer donations to Help for Heroes.

Chris served on 1(F) […]

Anyone Remember John Fearn?

Paul Fearn (@pilotpjf) asks on Twitter:

@fourfax my father is wondering if anyone here remembers him from 4 in Germany late 70s name John Fearn

He’s not in our database – please ask him to sign up on our Registration Page!