Here's a photo showing 110 Sqdn Sycamore XL822 with a '5 Star' plate on the pilot's door as it takes off from Changi. I have previously dated this as May '62 and thought it was the new C-in-C, Sir Hector McDonald. However 'a five star'...that's a really 'biggy' isn't it, Marshall of the RAF or Admiral of the Fleet?
So perhaps Air Chief Marshal 'Paddy', Earl of Bandon...he was around, back in again the Far East for awhile, helping with the Malay Federation talks. Would he get '5 Star'?
I also could be wrong about the date, although I don't believe it to be later than August '62. The other Sycamore on this day with it was XE310.
I know I should get back to Kew and read through the 110 Sqdn ORB again, but I didn't spot it last time I did that.
David Taylor