Three: Sergeant J. C. H. Smit, Royal Canadian Air Force

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £80-100

Smit commenced his wartime career at No. 7 E.F.T.S. at Desford, Canada in October 1942 and was embarked for the U.K. in December 1943. But he did not receive an operational posting until joining No. 103 Squadron, a Lancaster unit operating out of Elsham Wolds in Lincolnshire, in April 1945, his Flying Log Book recording a brace of Operation Manna and one Operation Exodus flights in the same month, as a 2nd Pilot. He appears to have been released from the service in June 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.C.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering the period October 1942 to June 1946, together with his pupil pilot exercise book with copious notes and drawings, two wartime photographs, and his Air Ministry campaign medal forwarding certificate.