The conflicting account was passed to me by well known BoB aviation historian, A Saunders.

Can I also suggest that the fact that on the 29 September 1940 P/O Hill’s funeral was held at Hawkinge might lead one to suspect he wasn’t hanging around in the tree tops two or three weeks later?

For reference*: http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Information/Jottings/Miscellany/Dovers%20Few.htm

The full (official) story will be available in the next month or so from TNA, Kew, when his casualty file will be in the next batch released

Moggy

* If you follow the link from that Dover Memorial Project you’ll find the ‘tree-tops’ account retold again. So on balance we’d best wait for Kew.

If his funeral was held on that date then it would appear that another myth about the Battle has been perpetuated for many years Moggy. It beggars belief to me how people can just make these kind of stories up, and just goes to show that if you say something often enough it soon becomes “Fact” and taken for granted as happening!.