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RIP Kris Ward

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Son of Sharkey Ward of Falklands fame and also a Harrier pilot, died suddendly aged 45:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... -soldiers/

Sorry most of the article is behind a paywall, cannot find another source yet.

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Very sad, and very young. :( Thank you for your service, Kris. RIP sir. And thanks for sharing this, Toby. :)

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It seems he actually died last month (November), following some googling. Not sure why this is appearing in the Telegraph as if happened [very] recently. Perhaps took them a while to put together an obituary? Either way, I hadn't seen this before and both he and his father made valuable contributions to the country whilst flying the Harrier.

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So young, dammit. RIP and thoughts with his family and friends.

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TobyV wrote:
31 Dec 2018, 13:49
It seems he actually died last month (November), following some googling. Not sure why this is appearing in the Telegraph as if happened [very] recently. Perhaps took them a while to put together an obituary? Either way, I hadn't seen this before and both he and his father made valuable contributions to the country whilst flying the Harrier.
Quite often they will have obituaries in a (sort of) queue, to place in print as and when space is available (and depending who else passes etc).

The Times also ran an obituary at the end of last week. I think these have both coincided with the family letting it be known that sadly, like many other ex-servicemen, he took his own life. :(
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I think these have both coincided with the family letting it be known that sadly, like many other ex-servicemen, he took his own life. :(
How very sad, there may have been any reasons for this but to think that someone has taken their own life at such a young age as he was cannot bear thinking about. :(

Condolences to his family.

The full account of his service life given here scroll down to the 10th post: https://www.pprune.org/military-aviatio ... rd-rn.html

RIP Kris Ward.

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