Lieutenant Commander Robert C. Simpson |
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Royal Navy Pilot Sea King Helicopter XZ919 of 826 Sqn. Died 27th June 1985, Aged 31. |
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Lieutenant Commander Robert Simpson and his three colleagues had successfully airlifted a sick fisherman to hospital and were returning to base when the Sea King helicopter he was piloting was in a midair collision with an RAF Hercules in dense cloud. The body of Lt Cmdr Simpson, a former head boy at Loughborough College School, where he was a boarder from 1968 to 1971, was never recovered from the 7,000ft depths of the Atlantic, 75 miles off the coast. There are now 5 memorials to his name. One in the Falklands, one in Sydney - home to his widow, Sandra, and their son George, - one in Helston, one at Yeovilton and the bronze memorial plaque on the Carillon Memorial, Loughborough. |
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Falklands Memorial |