Squadron Leader Jeffrey William Glover, QCVSA
More than four decades on, Jeff Glover has mixed thoughts about the Falklands Conflict. He is glad to have played a part in a winning campaign, but for a very long time he felt he had “let the side down.” This was because he was shot down on his very first ground attack mission, thereby losing one of the six aircraft from his squadron and becoming the only British pilot to be taken as a POW during the short war. Glover eventually got over this feeling of failure – hardly a logical one given others saw him as a hero of the war – and he went on to have a distinguished RAF career, including being awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air (QCVSA) and a tenure flying with the world-famous Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows.
The son of a school headmaster, Jeffrey William Glover was born in St Helens, Lancashire, on April 2, 1954. An only child, he was educated at Cowley School in St Helens, before gaining a BA Hons degree in engineering sciences at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was also a member of the University Air Squadron. From 1976-1977, Glover attended the RAF College, Cranwell, in Lincolnshire, where he won…
