British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

WW2 Silver Cigarette Case WRAF Sergeant Olive Mary Morse (Casualty). a good engine-turned ladies size cigarettes case by D&F Birmingham 1938, the inside front engraved with eleven Christian names (six male five female) and dated ‘5.9.39’. A handwritten note states, This silver cigarette case belonged to Olive M Morse (known as Daphne), who was killed in a Halifax plane, whilst flying over Yorkshire in 1943, when serving in the WRAF. She was Catharine Wagstaff’s step-sister’. Accompanied by much painstaking research concerning Sergeant Morse’s fatal last flight 14 September 1943. She was serving as Meteorologist with No. 4 Group. The Halifax LW246 of 158 Squadron crashed at Fardon near Filey North Yorkshire at approximately 1600 hours with the loss of all on board, very good condition £40-60