Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Flying Officer R. C. Hodgson, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medal, with named condolence slip and card box of issue addressed to his father at ‘Barrow in Furness, Lancashire’, extremely fine £130-160

Flying Officer (Squadron Navigation Officer) Robert Cyril Hodgson completed 22 operations serving with 408 (Goose) Squadron in Hampden and Manchester bombers. He was presumed killed in action on the night of 12/13 August 1942 when his Hampden failed to return from a bombing raid on the town of Mainz, Germany. Sold with copies of Squadron Operational Record Book regarding all his operational flying. In the summary of the operation of 12/13 August 1942 Hodgson is described as ‘one of the oldest members of this Squadron.’