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

№ 495

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22 September 2000

Estimate: £500–£600

Guy Gibson Signature, comprising two pages from the Pilots Flying Log Book belonging to Squadron Leader David Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C., dealing with the week of 20 April 1943 to 27 April 1943, and detailing eleven of the pre Dam Buster Raid training flights, e.g., ‘night X country dummy attacks, low level-dummy bombing, local low level - air firing’, etc., including original ink signatures of Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Flight Lieutenant David Maltby, very good condition £500-600

Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) David John Maltby flew in the first wave of Lancasters in the Dambusters Raid on 17 May 1943, being awarded the D.S.O. for his part in this raid. He was killed in action on 14 September 1943