Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Warrant Officer Air Navigator D. Jones, Royal Air Force, who served with 86 Squadron, Coastal Command, and flying Liberators, sunk an enemy U-Boat north of Shetland on 26 June 1944

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, very fine (4) £300-£400

David Trevor Jones was born on 1 April 1908, and joined the Royal Air Force on 4 December 1942. He undertook an Air Navigator’s Course at Ancienne Lorette, Quebec, from 7 December 1942 to 30 April 1943, before being posted to 111 O.T.U., Nassau, Bahamas, in September 1943. His first operational posting was to 86 Squadron, Coastal Command, based at R.N.A.S. Maydown, Northern Ireland, at the end of February 1944, and served as a Navigator, flying Liberators.

At the start of April 1944 Jones’s Squadron was transferred to Reykjavik, Iceland, from where over the next two months he carried out various anti-U-Boat searches. Relocating to Tain, Scotland, in early June 1944, his crew had their first (and only) ‘kill’ on the night of 26-27 June 1944, when north of Shetland they spotted, attacked twice, and, dropping three depth charges, sunk a German U-Boat with the loss of its entire crew.

Jones remained with 86 Squadron until the War in Europe was over, before transferring to Transport Command in August 1945. His final flight was on 28 March 1946.

Sold with the recipient's Royal Canadian Air Force non-Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering the period 22 October 1942 to 28 March 1946; the recipient’s pre-War Pilot’s Log Book, covering the period 5 October 1938 to 31 August 1939; various group photographs, including four taken at Nassau, Bahamas, featuring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; R.A.F. cap badge, cloth Observer’s brevet, and Warrant Officer’s cloth rank badges; and copied research regarding the successful attack on an enemy U-Boat, 26 June 1944, including photographic images.