Philip Preston Currass, QGM

22nd Special Air Service Regiment

Phil joined D Squadron 22SAS in 1972 from the Royal Army Medical Corps. He completed operational tours in Dhofar (Oman) and in Northern Ireland. In 1979 he was awarded the Queens Gallantry Medal. During the Falklands War he helped liberate South Georgia and raided Pebble Island to destroy enemy aircraft. Phil lost his life during a ship to ship transfer prior to carrying out a diversionary raid near Goose Green

Husband, Father, Brother, Son and Soldier. dearly loved and sorely missed by his family.

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well Nicholas Sparks

Lost in the South Atlantic 19th May 1982