Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant G. D. Greenhill, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with original Air Ministry issuance and condolence slips, the latter in the name of ‘Sergeant G. D. Greenhill’, in original card forwarding box addressed to next of kin at Forfar, Angus, extremely fine (3) £250-300

George Dalgetty Greenhill, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dalgetty Greenhill of Prior Cottages, Forfar, Angus, enlisted into the R.A.F.V.R. in March 1942 and was embodied in October. He was killed in action on the night of 1-2 March 1944, aged 26 years, while serving as an Air Gunner in a Halifax of No. 76 Squadron on a raid on Stuttgart - one fellow crew member managed to bale out and was taken P.O.W., but the remainder perished. Official records state that his Halifax crashed at Celles-sur-Plain, near Nancy, presumably as a result of flak damage or an enemy night fighter. Greenhill, who, according to his C.O., was ‘a successful Air Gunner, possessing ability and a strong sense of duty’, was interred in a collective grave in the Choloy War Cemetery, also near Nancy. Sold with copied research.