Sqn Ldr Bernard Tubbs - Mosquito Navigator

[SirPeterHardingsLovechild]

Asking for a friend of a friend, here is his query, cut & pasted:-
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In my my post on Guy Gibson earlier today I referred to a mosquito pilot I knew, and a couple of years ago I tried to find out more (anything) about him but with little success. He was well known in the Lloyd's of London insurance market but the internet was strangely silent about him. So - does anyone amongst my friends have access to old military records or databases that might give us his full story?

Bernard Tubbs. I think he was a squadron leader, I know he was an actual Mosquito pilot (I will relate a couple of the stories he told me - if we hit the jackpot!) and he was probably born c. 1920. He also had connections with (the) Leonard Cheshire.
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Couple of links already come across and posted on the FB discussion:-

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/186898?fbclid=IwAR0LvuRvSfcUQBvwEjc0vizHAr05iQ1GkfojB2aPaqSZ MxhEqnbpyD9sctA

F/O (159.698) Bernard Henry TUBBS DFM (nav.) RAFVR

https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RAF_officers_T01.html?fbclid=IwAR1y26D-KAVK7nqHIh3xZnnwwGZbUpNXbS43OhdNRgu9-JxwH7UKoGP_PX4

Thanks in advance for your help, the question poser will be viewing as a guest

SPHLC

[Imagegear]

A little more?

692 Squadron Picture

Back row on the right (http://aircrewremembered.com/brunt-sidney-percival.html)


Award of DFM (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37374/supplement/5898/data.pdf) Bernard Henry TUBBS, D.F.M. (159698), R.A.F.V.R., 692 Sqn.

Attack on Berlin by 692 (http://www.luftkrig1939-45.dk/pdf/Marts_1945/Kap_38.pdf) Mosquito XVI PF400 F/Lt P J Trotman, DFC & F/O B H Tubbs, DFM 18.23 22.32


DFC Citation (http://www.rafcommands.com/archive/20459.php) TUBBS, Bernard Henry, FL - DFC - 451204 - 692 Sqn - RAFVR

I also think he may have been Vice-Chairman of the London Gliding Club in the 70's as well as working for Bank of America, and of course Lloyds Insurance

IG

[XV490]

F/Lt P J Trotman (mentioned above). Isn't he the John Trotman who wrote 'J for Johnnie....' (can't recall the full title) about his time on Wellingtons and, later, Mosquitos (with 692 Sqn)?

If so, might not Bernard Tubbs be mentioned in the book?

[Imagegear]

Unfortunately the book is no longer available:

"J" for Johnnie

IG

[Pontius Navigator]

Unfortunately the book is no longer available:

"J" for Johnnie (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Johnnie-Experiences-Wellington-Mosquito-Squadrons/dp/1846831067)

IG
https://www.sedgeberrowbooks.co.uk/product/6401/J-for-Johnnie-Trotman-DFC-and-Bar-Flight-Lieutenant-PJP

[XV490]

A pal of mine confirms that "Tubby" does indeed feature in John Trotman's book, as his navigator. The pair enjoyed some adventures after force-landing in Belgium in a Mosquito (Tubbs baled out) in Dec 1944, before getting back to Graveley.