The widow of an RAF navigator who died in a plane crash in 1990 has made an Armistice Day appeal to restore her war widow pension payments. Maureen Jarvis 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.
However 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 the aircraft crashed into the hill of Maodal, on the Isle of Harris on April 30, 1990.
In an open letter, Ms Jarvis spoke of her devastation in 2014 when faced with the option of keeping her pension payments or losing them when she married her second husband. She described her “darkest days of grief”, adding how it is “impossible to explain to those who have not experienced such loss”.
