Orders, Decorations and Medals

Caterpillar Club, gold Caterpillar badge with ruby eyes, the reverse inscribed (Sgt. E. W. McGrath) together with two original letters concerning the Caterpillar Club from the Adjutant of No. 103 Squadron to the recipient’s father, dated February and April 1945, extremely fine £200-250

On the night of 29/30th October 1944, Sergeant Edward Walter McGrath, No. 103 Squadron, baled out over Belgium. He was posted missing in action but was later discovered to have died of his wounds on 29 November 1944, and is buried in Reichswald Forest Cemetery, Germany.