Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Aircraftman M. H. Lee, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died on Malta, 19 June 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (lot) £80-120

Maldwyn Herbert Lee was born in June 1916, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lee, and the husband of Margaret J. Lee of Dafen, Wales. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as Aircraftman Second Class, in April 1941, and advanced to Leading Aircraftman in May 1943. He died 19 June 1944, and is commemorated on the Malta Memorial.

Sold with the following related items and documents: Second War Campaign Medal card box of issue addressed to ‘Mrs M. Jane Lee, 6 Neville Terr., Dafen, Llanelly, Carm.Shire, S. Wales’; Memorial Scroll named to Leading Aircraftman M. H. Lee, R.A.F., in Ministry of Pensions envelope addressed to recipient’s mother; named Condolence Slip; Royal Air Force Airman’s Service Book, and other ephemera.