Promoted F/O (war substantive) wef 9 January 44. Promoted F/Lt (war substantive) wef 9 July 45. Probable date of commissioning 9 July 43. Flew also with 610 Sqn. When this unit was disbanded,he joined 350 Squadron where he arrived on 18 March 1945. Shot down during an During an Armed Recce. in the region Aschendorf - Meppen - Lingen and made POW