Pair: Squadron Leader P. D. Greenall, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, a senior signals and W./T. research officer in the 1939-45 War

Defence and War Medals 1939-45, together with the recipient’s identity discs (2), and uniform rank insignia, extremely fine (4) £100-150

Philip Dalton Greenall, who was born in May 1915 and completed his education at University College London, was commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after attending an officer’s signals course in May 1941. He was subsequently employed in Technical Training Command for the remainder of the War, specialising in W./T. and signals technology, and was finally released from the Service in March 1947.

Sold with a large quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s R.A.F. Flying Log Book for assorted W./T. flight tests in the period January 1944 to August 1945, wartime photographs, and much besides, not least a large series of typed and hand written reports, largely pertinent to wartime W./T. technology, but also correspondence with the Air Ministry in the late 1940s when he was employed by the Government - thus a request for his assistance from the Chief Research Officer at H.Q., Fighter Command. A most unusual and interesting archive and worthy of further research.