Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant D. H. Phillips, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed/died in the Mediterranean, 7 January 1942

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, extremely fine (3) £240-280

Before the war, Derek Howard Phillips was employed as an Estate Agent on Piccadilly, London. In the Second World War he served in the R.A.F.V.R. Sergeant Observer Phillips of No. 18 Squadron based in Malta, was reported missing, later dead/killed, on 7 January 1942. He was flying a Blenheim Mark IV, 7652 from Malta to the East coast of Tunisia when lost. His name is commemorated on the Malta Memorial. He was the son of Mr & Mrs Edgar L. Phillips, of Clanwilliam House, Watermouth Road, Ilfracombe.

Sold with named condolence slip and medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs O. Phillips, Clanwilliam House, Walmer, Kent’. With copied extracts from The Western Times - reporting on his loss and also, most poignantly, in the hope he was still alive, pleas that he contact his family.