Four: Sergeant F. J. Wyatt, Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in a crash landing on returning from an operational patrol over the Pacific in June 1944

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Sgt. F.E. F. J. Wyatt, R 66620’, and his Birks Memorial Bar, silver, officially inscribed ‘Sgt. F. J. Wyatt, R.C.A.F., Died in His Country’s Service, 9 June 1944’, in its card envelope with Minister of Veterans Affairs forwarding slip, extremely fine 6) £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Frederick John Wyatt was born in Hove, Sussex, England, on 30 August 1911. A Hospital Orderly by profession, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force at Montreal in June 1940.

Subsequently qualifying as a Flight Engineer, and advanced to Sergeant, he was posted to No. 4 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron (R.C.A.F.) at Ucluelet, British Columbia, in May 1944. A week or two later, on 9 June, on returning from a patrol over the Pacific, his Consa aircraft crashed into Ucluelet Inlet, Vancouver Island. His remains were washed up on shore that August, and interred in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver; sold with copied service papers and other records.