Staff Sergeant Phillip Preston Currass QGM – 22 SAS Regiment & Royal Army Medical Corps -1982

The Phil Currass Memorial Sundial on Old Radnor Stone

  • Memorial Text
  • Staff Sergeant Phillip Preston Currass QGM. 1947-1982
  • Phil joined D Squadron 22 SAS 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 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, then the joy would be gone as well.” Nicholas Sparkes.
  • Lost in the South Atlantic 19th May 1982
A wonderful tribute from the family with this rock from Old Radnor Quarry close to where Phil lived in Herefordshire.
The memorial has four bushes at its corners, which consist of laurel and a forsythia growing in harmony together.