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№ 293

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18 January 2023

Hammer Price:
£750

Eight: Master Signaller S. O. Chetwynd, Royal Air Force

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Malaya, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (518725 A.C.2. S. O. Chetwynd. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (M. Sig. S. O. Chetwynd. (518725) R.A.F.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (M. Sig. S. O. Chetwynd. (518725) R.A.F.) mounted as originally worn, generally very fine or better (8) £600-£800

Philip Burman Collection of medals for Malaya and Korea, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2018.

Stephen Osmund Chetwynd was born in Islington, London, on 24 July 1915 and enlisted in the Royal Air Force on 7 January 1935. He was advanced Mater Signaller on 1 September 1950, and was discharged on 31 January 1959. He died in Worthing, Sussex, on 25 February 1984.

Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book covering the period 15 August 1943 to 21 August 1957; copied record of service; and other research.