Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Near East, latter two clasps both tailor’s copies and both loose on riband (Flt. Lt. J. T. Franklin. R.A.F.) good very fine £80-£100

John Thomas Franklin was born in Lincoln on 23 May 1922 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force on 2 October 1949. He was commissioned Flying Officer on 3 December 1952, and was promoted Flight Lieutenant on 3 June 1956, and Squadron Leader on 1 July 1973. He commanded 5001 Squadron Detachment at El Adem in 1959, as part of the Airfield Construction Branch, and retired on 23 May 1978.

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