I am grieved to learn that Robbie has left us so soon; yet rejoice mightily in a good friend’s life, fully lived. Robbie was one to go the extra mile for anyone and I well remember his turning out to set up a night dive as a favour to keep an errant fellow officer ‘in date’. I praise God also that he was later able to serve as Pastor in the aptly named Hope Church. I learned and took strength from Robbie – such happy memories.

Lt Col (ret’d) the Rev’d Diana Johnson; St Mary and St Michael, Trumpington, Cambridge