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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£80

Mention in Despatches Certificate to Flight Lieutenant H. S. Lowerison, Royal Canadian Air Force, London Gazette 14 June 1945, mounted in glass-fronted frame; Commission Document appointing George Alexander Mortimer a Pilot Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force Special Reserve, dated 17 September 1943, this last a little worn, generally good condition (2) £120-160

M.I.D. Certificate to Lowerison with accompanying R.C.A.F. letter dated 17 October 1947.

George Alexander Mortimer came from Sackville, New Brunswick. As a Flying Officer (Air Bomber), serving with No. 195 Squadron, he was killed in action on 4 November 1944, aged 21 years, when his Lancaster bomber (NG219) crashed at Wermelshirchen, Germany. Originally buried at Wermelshirchen, his body was later exhumed and reburied in the Rheinburg War Cemetery. He was the son of John Chapple Mortimer and Jessie MacLean Smith Mortimer of Sackville, New Brunswick.