Auction Catalogue

22 October 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 301

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22 October 1997

Hammer Price:
£240

Seven: Warrant Officer M. Rikovsky, Flight Engineer, No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal; Czechoslovakia, Medal for Valour; Military Medal of Merit; War Cross 1939; Campaign Medal 1939-45, the first three Czech awards in boxes of issue; together with the recipient’s Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers for the period May 1944 to August 1945, and a photograph of the recipient, good very fine (7)

The recipient flew as Flight Engineer on Liberators with No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron and completed 30 operations on Anti-Submarine patrol. His aircraft attacked a submarine in the Baltic on 23 March 1945, and a ship in the same area three days later.