Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sergeant J. B. McPherson, Royal Air Force

Defence Medal; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (561190 Sgt. J. B. McPherson. R.A.F.) in named card box of issue; together with the recipient’s Royal Air Force Halton, Barrington Kennet Trophy Medal, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘1929-30 Senior Boxing Member Winning Team J. B. McPherson No.2 Wing’; and a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Medal, bronze, the reverse inscribed ‘J. Mc.Pherson Sept. 1932’, about extremely fine (4) £200-£300

James Blair McPherson was born in Morningside, Edinburgh, on 28 June 1911, and joined the Royal Air Force on on 19 January 1927, being posted to No. 2 Wing, R.A.F. Halton. He served in Iraq from 16 October 1931 to 17 February 1935, and was promoted Corporal on 1 April 1939. He served during the Second World War as a Coppersmith and Sheet Metal Worker with 21 (B) Squadron at R.A.F. Halton, and was promoted temporary Sergeant on 3 April 1942. Re-mustered as a Metal Worker on 16 June 1943, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 January 1945, and was discharged on 11 January 1949.

Sold together with the recipient’s parchment Certificate of Service and Discharge, in original blue envelope; Statement of Service and Certificate of Discharge (which states that the recipient was also entitled to a War Medal 1939-45); Driving Licence; and two photograph albums compiled by the recipient showing his time in Iraq, 1931-35, containing a mixture of service and tourist black and white photographs, the majority annotated, including one of the recipient.