Lot Archive

Lot

№ 560

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7 April 1994

Hammer Price:
£220

Six: Flight Sergeant H. G. Farley, Royal Air Force
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, Air Crew Europe; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (541881 F. Sgt.); ROYAL AIR FORCE L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (F. Sgt.)

Four: Flight Sergeant E. C. Atkinson, Royal Air Force 1939-45 STAR; AIR CREW EUROPE STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all privately impressed (650052 F. Sgt., R.A.F.) together with named condolence slip and details from Squadron record book Good very fine (10)

Flight Sergeant Ernest Charles Atkinson, W/Op. Air Gunner, 49 Squadron (Hampdens) was wounded in action during the attack on the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisnau at Brest, 6 July, 1941. He failed to return from a mission against Huls, 28-29 December, 1941, and was reported missing presumed killed.