Danny, we haven't yet finished with these strange coincidences. My Beau navigator was called Bob.
However it was a nickname that he preferred to his real name, William Bernard Pritchard. (Ahhhh...sounds of deflation again).
Bob was a P/O (Pilot Officer, as in P/O Prune). I was a Flight Sergeant when shot down, but lucky bugger, I had been put up for a Commission and it was back-dated to 27 October 1943, and I didn't find out until I'd been a PoW 10 months later.