The Fleet Air Arm Memorial Church

30/08/2026

20/08/2026

If it were not for the fateful event on Wednesday 3 June 2026, Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher would be have been 32 years old today. We continue to keep her family, friends and colleagues in our thoughts and prayers together with those of Lieutenant Commander Christopher Gayson and Petty Officer Aircrewman Owen Green who also lost their lives that day.

29/07/2026

07/07/2026

30/06/2026

Please be advised that the church and lower part of the Royal Naval Cemetery will be closed to the public from 4.00 pm - 6.00 pm for a private ceremony on Thursday 2 July 2026. Thank you.

14/06/2026

Today on the 44th anniversary of the Falklands Islands Liberation Day we commemorate all the lives lost during the 74 day conflict. We particularly remember the 19 Fleet Air Arm men who never came home from the South Atlantic in 1982.
View the Fleet Air Arm Operation Corporate Roll of Honour: https://1drv.ms/b/c/f341076283df2070/IQBwIN-DYgdBIIDzbwUAAAAAAWqOAbvsIL8nJKhQAN1fl4A?e=FNFAdP

05/06/2026

Our thoughts and prayers are for the families, friends and colleagues of Lieutenant Commander Chris Gayson, Lieutenant Lily-Mae Fisher and Petty Officer Aircrewman Owen Green.

28/05/2026

14/05/2026

Remembering the nine men of HMS BRILLIANT killed 37 years ago in Lynx Mk3, Serial No. XZ244 of 829 Naval Air Squadron, when it crashed into the Indian Ocean north of Mombasa in Kenya;
Lieutenant Commander Christopher Fessey (Flight Commander)
Lieutenant Jonathan Williams (Observer)
Chief Petty Officer Simon Banks-Popple
Chief Petty Officer Paul James
Chief Communications Yeoman Mark Potter
Chief Petty Officer Colin Simpson
Leading Seaman Colin Roy
Leading Regulator Philip Stevenson
Able Seaman John Savage

13/05/2026

By the time the Royal Naval Air Service (officially formed on 1 July 1914) merged with the Royal Flying Corps almost four years later, its strength had risen from 720 to 55,000 men, its aircraft numbers increased from 93 to 3,000 and gone from operating just six airships to 103.

I am grateful to David Reid and Andrew Berry for both sending me the story of WO Herbert Cook, who served on RNAS Airships in WWI... and forwarded on this press cutting from the Daily Telegraph. VMT