Auction Catalogue

5 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 673

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£350

Three: Flight Sergeant H. M. Foskett, Royal Air Force, who flew operationally as a Navigator (Radio) in Mosquitoes of No. 96 Squadron 1943-44

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £200-300

Having attended an Observer’s (Radio) Navigation Course from December 1942 until March 1943, and an Operational Training Unit, Foskett was posted to No. 96 Squadron in October 1943, a Beaufighter unit then operating out of Drem, but shortly to convert to Mosquitos and move to West Malling, and thence, with the advent of the Normandy landings, to Ford and Odiham.

And between then and December 1944, Foskett remained actively employed, completing numerous regular patrols and anti-V-weapon sorties (a.k.a. ‘Diver Patrols’), in addition to night fighter activity amounting to around 30 hours flying time, some of these latter notched up in immediate support of D-Day with Flight Lieutenant Phoenix as his pilot. He was “rested” at the end of the year on being posted to an instructor’s course.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book (Form 1767), covering the period December 1942 until March 1945.