Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Flying Officer D. H. Loder, No. 62 Squadron, Royal Air Force, killed in action in Burma in the same plane as P/O Simon Eden, son of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden, later the Earl of Avon
1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal, together with named condolence slip and original letter from Anthony Eden on Foreign Office paper, ‘Dear Mrs Loder, I was so distressed to hear that your son was also missing in the same aircraft as mine. Please accept my very sincere sympathy in your anxiety...’, extremely fine (3) £100-150

Flying Officer (Bomb Aimer) Douglas Henry Loder, 62 Squadron, was shot down on 23 June 1945 and is buried in Tarkkyan War Cemetery, Burma.