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№ 1471

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£160

Six: Flight Sergeant V. A. Jewel, Royal Auxiliary Air Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Air Efficiency Award, E.II.R., with additional long service bar (2692143 Sgt. V. A. Jewell, R. Aux. A.F.) very fine or better (6) £100-150

Sold with an article about the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, published in Winter 1977, which gives mention of the recipient: ‘Amongst the ‘old hands’, Flight Sergeant Vic Jewell was in the Army on anti-aircraft radar during the war but plumped for the RAuxAF in 1951 because he ‘just liked the idea’.