Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant A. W. Ragan, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action on a “gardening” sortie in a Wellington of No. 115 Squadron in May 1942

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in their original Air Ministry forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs. S. H. Ragan, 17, Lennox Road, Worthing, Sussex’, together with his Air Council condolence slip in the name of ‘Sergeant A. W. Ragan’, some wear to the patina on the second, otherwise generally good very fine or better (4) £240-280

Arthur Wilton Ragan was killed on a “gardening” sortie on the night of 17-18 May 1942, when his Wellington failed to return to base - ‘At 0138 an aircraft was seen going down, out of control, at a position 55N 06E and evidence suggests it may have been this Wellington’ (R.A.F. Bomber Command Losses, 1942, refers). The son of John William and Sarah Henrietta Ragan of Worthing, Sussex, he was 20 years of age and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.