Bromyard adventurer Gerald Kingsland who found fame when he advertised for women to share his life with him on deserted islands across the world has reached his final resting place - a field in Herefordshire.

The would-be Robinson Crusoe who at one time had lived with friends in the area died in London earlier this year at the age of 69.

Recently his home had been in Western Samoa with his fifth wife, a native girl called Kolopa.

Last November he was diagnosed with bowel cancer and at Christmas returned to London to stay with the wife he had left 25 years ago.

He died in March and his ashes have now been scattered in a field on a farm near Bromyard.

Gerald Kingsland spent the last 22 years of his life hopping from one deserted island to another in the South Pacific.

He behaved like a modern Robinson Crusoe, and advertised in newspapers and magazines for suitable Girl Fridays to accompany him.

He found them, but in turn they found life in paradise to be less than perfect.

One of them, castaway Lucy Irvine, wrote a best-selling book of their adventures in an exotic location which was later turned into a film starring Oliver Reed and Amanda Donohoe.

Gerald Kingsland's wife Kolopa, aged 27, and son Richard, his seventh child, remain at their home in Samoa.