[stiggy]

Many thanks, Martin.

I have been bashing my head against this for quite some time now.
Flt. Lt. Lancelot Spencer DOBSON joined 53 Squadron 9 days before my father (later to be Flt. Lt. Jack Hubert STIGNER). These two, with Sqn. Ldr. Anthony Evan HILDITCH, were the only three original pilots, who flew 53 Sqn. Bristol Blenhiems in early 1941, to survive with the squadron, and its conversion to the Lockheed Hudson, until its reorganisation in early 1943. And with Flt. Lt. Lancelot Spencer DOBSON being lost in 1944, my father and Sqn. Ldr. HILDITCH were the only 53 Sqn. pilots, from both the Blenheim and Hudson period of the squadron, to survive the war.

Thanks again,

Jonathan Stigner (Stiggy)