[Tom Willis]

G5 was not an official Gloster designation but given by the Luftwaffe Intelligence officer who first compiled the loss report and this Type G5 stuck. A bit like references to captured MiG 3s were given the Type No I-61. I cannot confirm that the G5 reference meant anything to do with the Belgian production of Gladiators just one Lw Officer's idea of a Gloster Type who did not know that they had the collective name of Gladiator. The Germans relied on up-dated Intelligence Reports of Foreign Types and perhaps one did refer to the Gloster Gladiator as a Type G5.