Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Flight Sergeant S. Alexander, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died on active service in the Far East in August 1945, while serving in No 159 Squadron

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original Air Ministry forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs. M. Alexander, 23, Eastfield Road, Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne 7’, together with his Air Council condolence slip in the name of ‘Flight Sergeant S. Alexander’, good very fine (3) £120-150

Stanley Alexander died on active service on 3 August 1945, while serving as a Flight Sergeant in No. 159 Squadron in the Far East. Operating in Liberators out of Digri, India, from April 1944, but with forward detachments at Jessore, Karachi and Akyab Island in Burma by the summer of 1945, No. 159 Squadron was tasked with long range bombing and mining missions and, latterly, after being strengthened by hand-picked Liberator crews, on path finder duties. This, then, about the time of the recipient’s demise. The son of Mrs. Miranda Alexander of West Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, he was 20 years of age and is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial.