"I shall always be the war widow of Alan," says Maureen Jarvis, whose RAF navigator husband died in a plane crash in 1990. She is speaking about a rule that she says discriminates against people like her – and robs her of a war widow pension.
Maureen, from Moray in Scotland, like scores of other military widows and widowers who remarried or formed a civil partnership before 2015, had her payments removed. Now, she has made an Armistice Day appeal to restore the pension.
She says she is discriminated against because widows and widowers whose late spouse or civil partner left service before March 31, 1973 or remarried after 2015 still receive their payments. Her first husband Alan Campbell, a Tactical Coordinator in the RAF, was one of 10 killed when an aircraft crashed into the hill of Maodal, on the Isle of Harris on April 30, 1990.
