Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Flight Engineer’s D.F.C. awarded to Pilot Officer F. W. McLelland, No. 51 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse dated 1944, in its Royal Mint case of issue, together with Buckingham Palace forwarding letter, two news cuttings and his original Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book for the period June 1943 to November 1944, nearly extremely fine £500-600

D.F.C. London Gazette 27 June 1944. The following recommendation was extracted from the Public Record Office: ‘Pilot Officer McLelland has now completed 23 sorties with Bomber Command on its night offensive against the enemy. One night in December when the aircraft in which he was Flight Engineer was damaged by incendiary bombs over the target, he was hit on the head by a piece of flying metal. In spite of this he showed great coolness and assisted his injured captain to bring the damaged aircraft back to base. His technical skill, calm, and cheerful devotion to duty has been a fine example to the rest of his crew.