Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The original Flying Log Books appertaining to R. H. Gibson, who flew as a Navigator in Canberras during the “Cold War”, comprising R.A.F. Aircrew Flying Log Book (Form 1767, revised June 1955), covering the period May 1959 to July 1966, and another similar (but as revised December 1964), the period August 1966 to May 1968, together with an original photograph and occasional inserts, generally in excellent condition (Lot) £80-120

Gibson, who attended the R.A.F. Cranwell 1958-61, where he qualified as a Navigator, was posted to No. 88 Squadron in May 1962 and to No. 3 Squadron at the end of the same year, in which latter capacity he served until May 1965, mainly in Germany. His final appointment was with No. 45 Squadron in the Far East from November 1965 to May 1968, when he flew as a Navigator Plotter in Canberra B. 15s out of Tengah, and may have qualified for the Campaign Service Medal 1962 for “Malay Peninsula”.