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Three: Flight Sergeant F. D. F. Rautenbach, South African Air Force
Korea 1950-53, South African issue (P13159 E. D. F. Rautenbach); U.N. Korea; South Korea Service Medal, good very fine (3) £300-350
Edwin David Frans Rautenbach was born on 23 September 1929 and attested for the South African Air Force in 1949. He served in Korea as an Air Sergeant and, attaining the rank of Flight Sergeant in 1955, he was discharged to the Reserve in 1956. He re-engaged in January 1964 as a Regimental Instructor and was posted to the School of Technical Training. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers, including a report on an altercation between the recipient and an American airman, when a frank exchange of opinions made more free by drink, sadly led to blows.
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