Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1244

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1 December 2004

Hammer Price:
£270

Three: Sergeant F. J. Abrahams, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45,
together with original Air Council condolence slip in the typed name of ‘Sergeant F. J. Abrahams’, extremely fine (3) £140-160

Frederick Joseph Abrahams formed part of the crew of a Whitley V bomber, No. P5082, which took part in an attack on Bremen on 28 October 1940. His aircraft signalled that it had attacked the target but on its return crashed into the sea off the coast of Aberdeen. A subsequent sea-search was abandoned and all the crew were presumed dead.