Lot Archive

Lot

№ 573

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£30

Four: Leading Aircraftsman E. H. Wright, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in their original Air Ministry card forwarding box addressed to ‘E. H. Wright, Esq., 24 Mullins Path, Mortlake, London S.W. 14’, with Air Council forwarding and named and numbered issuance slips, together with the recipient’s R.A.F. Service & Release Book, extremely fine

Four: attributed to Aircraftsman Burtsow, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in their card box of issue with modern day Defence Council forwarding slip, being late claims of the 1990s, extremely fine (8) £30-40

Ernest Henry Wright, who was born in May 1915, joined the Royal Air Force in October 1940, served out in Burma and India from March 1943 until February 1946, and was demobilised on his return to the U.K.