SIR,

My interest is researching aircraft crashes in my local area. I am trying to trace a photograph/ relations/ pilot's log book of a Second World War RAF fighter pilot, Sergeant John Thomas Strickland, service number 922262, who came from Monmouth.

While training in No.55 Operational Training Unit based at RAF Usworth, north-east England, he made a wheels up forced landing in a Hawker Hurricane on 2nd January 1942 with no injuries somewhere near Consett, County Durham.

He was born in 1918 and died in 1996.

Please email philip.smith322

@btinternet.com or 0191 4883654 after 3pm or write to Philip Smith, 13 Sunnidale, Fellside Park, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne NE16 5TT.

Philip Smith

(Newcastle upon Tyne)