Lot Archive

Lot

№ 372

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20 October 1993

Hammer Price:
£100

A Second World War casualty's group attributed to Flight Lieutenant S.E. Wodehouse, Royal Air Force

1939-45 STAR; AIR CREW EUROPE STAR, clasp, France & Germany; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all privately engraved (F/Lt., R.A.F.) extremely fine

Flight Lieutenant S.E. Wodehouse was killed in action while piloting a Halifax of 77 Squadron during a raid on Sterkrade on the night of 16/17 June 1944. It was his twenty-eighth operation. Sold with research.