Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Flying Officer W. H. Bull, Royal Air Force (V.R.), No. 358 (Special Duties) Squadron

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, with named condolence slip and in card box of issue addressed to his father at Aston, Birmingham, extremely fine (4) £80-100

Flying Officer Walter Henry Bull was killed in action on 1 may 1945, and is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial. 358 squadron was formed in November 1944, taking part in the attack on Mandalay. It then became a “Special Duties” squadron and was primarily employed in dropping supplies and agents to clandestine parties operating in Japanese occupied South-east Asia.