Don't accept the red herring from Sycamore: I suspect that he refers to parking his Manx Norton, or similar, at Ternhill and had no involvment with the current Strawberry.
8 Squadron wins, of course. I remember my own return to Thorney after a year in The Gulf, greeted in the Sunshine Hangar by the foolish man, by then a 46 Flight Commander, who had consented to my being commissioned at South Cerney. Lovely chap!