Auction Catalogue

4 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 1114

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£400

Four: Sergeant J. L. Powell, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals nearly extremely fine (4) £300-350

John Lynden Powell, a Yorkshireman, commenced training as an Air Gunner in June 1943 and following attendance at No. 81 O.T.U. and a coversion course, reported to No. 550 Squadron, a Lancaster unit, at Killingholme, Lincolnshire in January 1944. During his first operational sortie, to Berlin on the night of 27th-28th, his aircraft was compelled to return early, but on the following night the “Big City” was successfully attacked. So, too, on the night of 15-16 February 1944, in which month Powell and his crew were also assigned to Leipzig, Stuttgart and Schweinfurt. On the night of 25th-26th, however, during a strike against Augsburg, their Lancaster was brought down over France. Aged 29 years, Powell was interred in the Liesse Communal Cemetery at Aisne.

Sold with the recipient’s original Flying Log Book, covering the period June 1943 until February 1944, the final page inscribed, ‘Death presumed 25.2.1944’; together with official memorial scroll and two portrait photographs.