A former RAF squadron leader who lived in Ceres has died at the age of 87.
Charles Edmund Crocker served with the RAF for 31 years after joining during the second world war.
He passed away peacefully on November 30 in Pitlair House and his funeral is to take place in Kirkcaldy on Friday.
Mr Crocker was born in Cornwall in 1923 but moved with his father’s job in the coastguard to Wales, the Scilly Isles, Croyde Bay and Robin Hood’s Bay.
His first job was as a cub reporter with the North Devon Press and Journal before he joined the air force on July 15, 1941.
Mr Crocker was in Bomber Command and was a bomb aimer in a Lancaster before being transferred to train new flight crews.
He had volunteered to go on Tiger Force to fight the Japanese but never got the chance before they surrendered.
After the war, Mr Crocker was posted to Germany, where he met Sheila Berry, and the couple married in Lubeck in 1946.
After various postings the couple moved to Germany again when their first daughter Liz was a toddler.
Their second daughter Sarah was born in Germany in 1961. Mr Crocker also had an unaccompanied posting for the closure of Aden in the mid-1960s.
He eventually retired from the RAF aged 49 and went on to work for the health board in Worthing.
Sheila died of cancer in 1983, but Mr Crocker found love again with Sarah, who he had become friends with while their families were in the RAF.
He moved to Ceres to join Sarah, initially in St John’s Lodge, and they married in 1988. The couple later moved to Westbourne.
Mr Crocker enjoyed gardening and in his retirement surprised his family by building a dry stone wall.
He moved to Pitlair House, near Cupar, after the onset of dementia two years ago. He leaves behind Sarah, his daughters, step-daughter Charlotte, grandchildren Lucy, Ben, Millie, Lauren, Thomas and Molly and great-granddaughter India.