Originally Posted by Smithy

Gary, it is actually doubtful whether Cobber would have necessarily seen combat during the BoB, if he had not have had his accident. He was due to return home initially for R & R (he had been on service with 73 the longest of any of the pilots to originally go to France with them) during which time he was due to be married. After this rest period he was to be posted as an instructor. Few of the Battle of France originals from 73 saw service during the BoB, from memory and without consulting my sources, I can only off the top of my head think of Lucky Lovett seeing operational action during the Battle.

If history had turned out differently, Cobber would eventually have returned to ops, although I imagine this would've been after the BoB. All of this though so sadly did not happen.