My log book shows my last landing on 9th December, 865,
Could well be the 9th. I would fill in my log book monthly but when we shut down we were told that the Valiants had been grounded.
Somebody told me that when the Station Commander got the message he tried to phone ATC to stop everything. There was no reply so he drove around the airfield to tell them personally. That's when he met a Valiant coming the other way.