Talk:Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service

Awards and Decorations
Awards and decorations only extends to 1993. Needs extension to date.Tim P (talk) 19:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree, someone should check for newer references. Otherwise it seems like quite a good article to me apart from the very long paragraphs, which I have now split up. I will remove the wikify tag as I don't think it needs it, but I do wonder whether someone with a bit more time shouldn't remove all those repeated wikilinks - especially in the awards section. Surely we only need one link per rank? Cwilso (talk) 17:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Roll of Honour/Line of Duty Deaths
I have had to remove this section as it doesn't confirm with WP:NOTMEMORIAL, it should be ok here in the talk section for reference. Pandaplodder (talk) 13:42, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The following airmen died while on Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue duty or expeditions and are remembered by their team-mates:

"Chick" Chalmers, RAFMRT Edzell, 1951: Convoy accident

David Thomas, RAFMRT Valley, 1952: Mountaineering training accident, Cader Idris, Wales

Alan Grout, RAFMRT Kinloss, 1956: Fall, mountaineering training accident:  North Face of Garbh Bheinn, Scotland

Michael Aspain, RAFMRT St Athan, 1960: Lightning strike during escort of Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme candidates (boy entrants, RAF St Athan):  Drws Bach Ridge, Aran Mountains, Wales

David Austin, RAFMRT Leeming, 1961: Convoy accident:  near Kettlewell, North Yorkshire, England

Kenneth O’Neile, RAFMRT Kai Tak, Hong Kong, 1962: Sheltering from Typhoon Wanda on Lan Tao Island, shelter collapsed

Mick Fearn, RAFMRT St Athan (Team Leader), 1965: Fall, mountaineering training accident:  Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, England

Ian McKinnon, RAFMRT Akrotiri, Cyprus, 1972: Hit by rock, then 1,200 ft fall:  on Nelion, Mt Kenya, during RAF Akrotiri MRT expedition

Phil James, RAFMRT St Athan (Deputy Team Leader), 1985: Heart attack while climbing:  Tremadoc, Wales

Jesse Owen, RAFMRT Stafford, 1988: Convoy accident:  Betws y Coed, Wales

Others are remembered who died on the hill while serving team members, although not on duty at the time:

"Ali" Barbour, RAFMRT Leuchars, Alps, 1977, killed while climbing

"Al" McLeod, 1988: North Face of Matterhorn