Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Five: Flight Lieutenant K. N. MacDougall, Royal Australian Air Force

1939-45 Star; Italy Star, unnamed as issued to the R.A.A.F.; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Australia Service Medal, these three officially inscribed ‘411805 K.N. MacDougall’, very fine and better (5) £250-300

Kenneth Norman MacDougall enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in Sydney in May 1941 and commenced pilot training at No. 4 E.F.T.S. at Mascot, New South Wales in July of the same year. Afterwards attending additional courses in Canada, he served briefly with a ferry unit in West Africa before being posted in mid-1943 to No. 459 Squadron, R.A.A.F., a Hudson unit operating out of North Africa. MacDougall flew his first sortie, an anti-submarine patrol off Berka, on 23 June, and went on to complete a wide variety of operations before joining No. 74 O.T.U. in May 1944. These included convoy escort work, anti-shipping strikes and the occasional bombing run, targets being found in Crete, Greece and the Greek Islands. Mentioned in despatches in January 1945, MacDougall served at No. 75 O.T.U. until the following May and was discharged back in New South Wales later in the year.

Sold with the recipient’s original British Forces (Middle East) identity card, with portrait photograph, dated June 1943; several copy wartime photographs; and a photocopy of his Flying Log Book for the period February 1943 to March 1945, with endorsement confirming the loss of his first Flying Log Book as a result of fire caused by a crash landing in a Hudson on 6 March 1943.