Four: Flight Sergeant J. F. D. Churchill, No. 203 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Flight Engineer of a Liberator which failed to return from an anti-shipping patrol off Sumatra in July 1945

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, clasp, France and Germany; Pacific Star, clasp, Burma; War Medal, with named Air Council condolence slip (Flight Sergeant J. Churchill) and lid from card box of issue addressed to his widow, extremely fine (4) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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John Frank Dawes Churchill was the son of John and Marjory Churchill, and husband of Sylvia Victoria Churchill, of Bridgewater, Somerset. He was the Flight Engineer on Liberator No. KG-911 which failed to return from an anti-shipping patrol off Sumatra on 23 July 1945, aged 20. He is commemorated by name on the Singapore Memorial inside Kranji War Cemetery.