[Martin Gleeson]

Hello Peter and Stig,

Thank you both for the kind words. I appreciate that.

Peter,

Glad to have helped. Can you please send me either a PM on this site or contact me using the email address on my website re. the F.78 ?

I ordered a paper copy of the F.78 for X4168 before I discovered the joys of buying PDF reels from the RAF Museum. Very lucky in this case as it turned out. My reel for R6759 to X4778 contains only 1,522 pages, I believe it should be about 2,000. Like you, page 1 of the F.78 for X4168 is missing from that reel, and I suspect now a lot more.

I had long thought something was not quite right about some of the reels from the RAF Museum, insofar as it seemed many serials in some (only) had page 1 or 2, or were completely missing. However, it was about a month ago that another colleague confirmed this, when he told me that his equivalent reel (for another aircraft type) had over 500 pages more than mine !

BTW. The F.78 for X4168 has no mention of 222 Squadron or date of loss, just the Struck Off Charge date.

Regards,

Martin.