VB, thank you. Now I should recognised him. Mind you I would have sworn I had flown with him but found I haven't. I see though that Ricky was the captain on one OCU sortie. Equally surprising I thought I had flown with Don Briggs but found I hadn't but that I had flown with Joe L'Estrange when he was posted to 35 - another fact I had forgotten.
On stealling sorties I see I flew with IX to UK and back for some reason when I was on 35.