Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Pilot Officer John Herbert Charles McCoubrey, No. 103 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal, silver issue; together with R.A.F. Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book, covering period 13 May 1944 - 29 November 1944; R.C.A.F. Pay Book; and a theatre pass, dated October 1941, including photograph of recipient, nearly extremely fine or better (4) £150-180

Pilot Officer (Air Gunner) John Herbert Charles McCoubrey was killed in action on 29 November 1944, whilst on a bombing operation in a Lancaster over Dortmund, Germany. He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

The following operations are recorded in his log book: 23.9.1944 - Ops. Neuss; 11.10 1944 - Ops on Frederick Henrick; 14.10.1944 - Ops. on Duisburg; 19.10.1944 - Ops. on Stuttgart; 23.10.1944 - Ops. on Essen; 28.10.1944 - Ops. on Cologne; 30.10.1944 - Ops. on Cologne (Hit by flac, 5 bale out, crash landed at St Gerard, Belgium, DC3 back); 18.11.1944 - Ops. on anne Eickle; 21.11.1944 - Ops. on Ashaffenburg; 27.11.1944 - Ops. on Freiburg; 29.11.1944 - Ops. on Dortmund (Failed to return). Sold with comprehensive research detail, including copies from Squadron Record Book.