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- Raymond Farquhar SIMPSON. Flight Sergeant, Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 415030 Royal New Zealand Air Force. of No 5. (Coastal) Operational Training Unit, based at RAF Long Kesh,
Born 1920 to Robert Farquhar Simpson and of May Simpson (nee Dodd), of Papanui, Canterbury, New Zealand.
On the 18 November 1943 he was part of a four-man crew flying in a Lockheed Hudson Mark V, AE653 aircraft on a rocket firing exercise on submarine targets at South Island in Strangford Lough. The aircraft crashed into Strangford Lough just south of Chapel Island (off Greyabbey) killing all the crew, he was age 23 years.
At rest in Movilla Cemetery Newtownards County Down, Northern Ireland.
The other crew members were
Walter Edward Fern Pilot Sgt 1434201 RAFVR. William Barraclough Flight Sergeant, Navigator/Bomber RAFVR. Andrew Greenwell Gibbison. Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 424976 RNZAF
