[BlenheimBuff]

Thanks Ross/Dave,

The name Roi Leonard Saunders is too unusual for there to have been 2 in the service, so I think that the AIR78 entry must be the same person, in which case Roi Saunders must have been in the RAuxAF prior to 1939. As I understand it members of the RAuxAF were civilians who learnt to fly at their own expense, so presumably all such pilots with service numbers in the 800000 to 874806 range would have been recorded on AIR78 cards, as they weren't actually commissioned officers. When the RAuxAF squadrons were incorporated into the RAF at the outbreak of war then each man would have had a new service number allocated (70602 in Roi Saunders' case).

The R.L. Saunders mentioned in Flight in the RAFVR section must have been another individual entirely.

604 squadron RAuxAF flew the Mk1(F) version of the Blenheim, so I guess this might possibly explain how Roi Saunders ended up flying Blenheims with 57 Sqn.

Looks like I need to do some more digging. Thanks for the help guys.

Ian