Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Attributed to Pilot Officer R. A. G. Cranefield, 630 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action on 12 September 1944, when his Lancaster failed to return from a from a bombing mission to Darmstadt, Germany

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, in card box of issue addressed to ‘A. W. Cranefield, Esq., The Nook, Woodlands Avenue, Eastcote, Ruislip, Middlesex’, nearly extremely fine (3) £70-£90

Robert Arthur Godwin Cranefield, the son of Arthur William and Doris Edith Cranefield, of Eastcote, Middlesex, and was educated at Harrow County School of Boys. He joined 630 Squadron at Kirkby, Lincolnshire in July 1944, as a Flight Engineer, and flew bombing missions with his squadron from August 1944, including two daylight bombing attacks on Tossy St. Maximin, and other raids over occupied France to Bois de Cassan, Secqueville, an enemy fuel depot at Chatelleault, Bordeaux, Quesnay Wood, and L’Isle Adam. He was killed in action when his Lancaster Mk. 1, No. PB.283 failed to return from a raid on Darmstadt, Germany, on 12 September 1944, having crashed at Schmidthachenbach, and is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany.

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