[Andy Saunders]

I am still trying to resolve the mystery of this unknown airman.

I have struggled with the unreadable text on the French newspaper cutting, kindly posted by Wise62.

If I can make out the text correctly, then it seems there was evidence pointing to this crash having happened on 24 May 1940.

That being the case, there only seems to be one missing candidate; Plt Off Richard Dennis Aubert, 41361, of 74 Squadron lost on 24 May in N3243.

I appreciate this is all very vague and circumstantial, but the wreckage was evidently a Spitfire Mk I and the possibilities are limited.

I still favour the possibility that this may have been Plt Off Learmond of 92 Squadron, lost on 23 May 1940 since the location ties in with the apparently reported location of his crash.

Whoever the poor chap was, he was buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery on 28 July 1988, Plot 14, Row E, Grave 22 as an unknown airman.