Adrian Goldsmith Spitfire BR525 or BR526?

[PMoz99]

Thanks udf_00. How did you get the info from the book so quickly??
I now checked Aces High II and see Chisholm also flew BR525 in Nth Africa on 30/8/42 and 1/9/42. CieldeGloire states sources as Shores and Williams, but has the a/c on those dates coded as QJoS and on 27/10/42 as QJoT, but they were supposedly the same a/c. But then on 4/1/43 they have him flying QJoT again, but Aces High II have the serial as ER345. More errors? Changed codes twice? Anyway, not important here as I'm really interested in BR526.
Thanks for the info on BR526. It now seems that is the correct code for Goldsmith's a/c in 1943, and adf-serials is wrong.
Cheers

[Tom Semenza]

On 27.10.42 Chisholm was flying BR576 coded QJ-T and on 08.01.43 ER345 also coded QJ-T apparently a replacement aircraft (see Mediterranean Air War, Vol.2).

Regards,
Tom

[PMoz99]

Oops, yes. Sorry, got my lines crossed over reading the entries!

[Graham Boak]

My source was Spitfire The History, but it says nothing about Goldsmith or anything after arrival in Australia, as is common in this work. It shows BR525 going to Australia, the dates being the same as for the Hoperidge, and that it was BR526 that went to the Middle East on the Nigerstown. It does seem that these two aircraft have had their histories switched in different sources, but which source is right and which wrong? If there is independent evidence pointing both to BR525 as being in the Middle East, and BR256 being in Australia, then STH is wrong. But are these sources independent?