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

Lot

№ 489

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22 September 2000

Hammer Price:
£210

R.C.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Book, for the period January 1942 to June 1946, kept by Flying Officer D. H. Shorland, No. 130 (Punjab) Squadron and later No. 548 Squadron in Australia, a Spitfire pilot who trained with No. 1 British Flying Training School in Texas, U.S.A., detailing seven operational sweeps in Spitfire V’s, mostly as close escort to bombers, during August and September 1943, with two group photographs in front of Spitfires, and a copy of Detached Flight, The Book of No. 1 B.F.T.S., Vol I, a photographic record with portrait photos of all the pilots on Courses 4, 5, 6 & 7, amongst whom was LAC A. L. Aaron who later won the Victoria Cross, good condition (2) £250-300