He was also a paternal uncle of HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, previously Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, and thereby a maternal granduncle to HRH Prince William of Gloucester and HRH Prince Richard, The Duke of Gloucester.
Prince William of Gloucester, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, died at the airport on 28 August 1972 when the aircraft he was piloting crashed into a hedge just beyond the airfield's boundary.
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It is a National TA unit, formed in April 1995, which recruits personnel from all over the country and is based at Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham, Lincolnshire.