Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Aircraftsman L. E. Saunt, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with their original addressed card forwarding box and issuance slip, together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. 1435851 Saunt, L.’, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £40-60

Leslie Ernest Saunt, a native of Worthing in Sussex, served in the Royal Air Force as an Airframe Mechanic from July 1941 until September 1946, including active service in India and Burma on the strength of No. 684 Squadron from December 1944 until the end of hostilities. A photo-reconnaissance unit under the command of Wing Commander W. E. M. Lowry, D.F.C., 684 operated in Mosquitos and Beaufighters during Saunt’s period of active service, originally out of R.A.F. Alipore in India but, as the Allies advanced, out of such advance airfields as Mingaladon in Burma.

Sold with a good quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s R.A.F. Service and Release Book, diary for the period September to December 1944, and No. 682 Squadron, R.A.F. India, 1944, autographed menu card, among other interesting photographs and memorabilia from the wartime years.