Orders, Decorations and Medals

An Air Gunner's D.F.C. group of seven awarded to Warrant Officer G.S.H. Davies, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated '1945' and contained in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; ITALY STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, together with the recipient's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, and Release Book, good very fine (7)

D.F.C., London Gazette, 27 March, 1945, George Samuel Henry Davies, Warrant Officer, R.A.F.V.R., 622 Squadron.

Warrant Officer Davies began his operational flying with 70 Squadron in North Africa on 27 October 1942. Flying in Wellington bombers as Rear Gunner, his first dozen or so missions were against enemy tank and motor transport concentrations around Tobruk in the last months of 1942. His subsequent operations included targets in Tunis, Tripoli, the Mareth Line and Naples, ending his first tour after a total of 30 operational missions in June 1943. After a period of training with No. 2 Air Gunnery School he joined 622 Squadron for a second operational tour. Usually as mid-under gunner of a Lancaster Bomber he completed a further 22 missions, more than half of them day time raids, against heavily defended targets in the heart of Germany. His last mission was against Dortmund on 2 December 1944, and he was released from the service exactly one year later.