The Rev Robert Crossett who was born in Liverpool in 1901 became a Presbyterian minister in Northern Ireland serving at Chester Avenue in Whitehead until 1928 and then after a few years in St John’s, South Shields, he returned to Northern Ireland and was then installed in Bray, Co Wicklow in 1934.

He served, from 1942 to 1946, with the British Forces as a Chaplain and landed in Normandy on D-Day 1944 with the invasion force.

Resigning from Bray in 1946 he was appointed Director of Religious Broadcasting for the British Army on the Rhine and then in 1951 he became Assistant Head of Programmes for BBC NI until his death in 1961.  He is buried at Stewartstown Presbyterian Church, County Tyrone.