Auction Catalogue

22 September 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 485

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22 September 2000

Estimate: £400–£500

G.Q. Parachute Company Gold Badge, inscribed on the reverse ‘F/Lt. R. W. Millward, 7th Dec. 1970’, and numbered ’671’, hallmarked 9 carat gold, Birmingham 1952, extremely fine and scarce £400-500

Squadron Leader Richard Walter Millward, A.F.C., qualified for his G.Q. Gold Badge on 7 December 1960, after his emergency escape over West Germany from a Sabre Mk 6 aircraft, at a height of 2000 feet, wearing a flexible back pack parachute. He was awarded the Air Force Cross in January 1969. Sold with full confirmation and copy from the G.Q. Gold Badge Club Register.