THE man who pressed the button that released Britain's first H-bomb was 36-year-old Flight Lieut. Alan Washbrook, cousin of the former England Test cricketer Cyril Wash brook.

A navigator and bomb aimer, he holds the D.F.C. Married, with three children, his home is in Troy-street, Blackburn. Lancashire. 

A Regular officer, he joined the R.A.F. in 1941, and during the last war did two tours  of operations with Bomber Command with Nos. 12 and 154 Squadrons.

Before he joined the R.A.F. he was a book-keeper.  He joined his present squadron last September.