Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Flight Lieutenant G. K. Whorlow, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these all impressed ‘137516 S/Ldr G. K. Whorlow, R.A.F.’; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, with Second Award Bar (Flt. Lt. G. K. Whorlow. R.A.F.V.R.) very fine and better (6) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

George Kenneth Whorlow was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 18 February 1943, and was posted to the Administrative and Special Duties Branch. He was promoted Flying Officer on 18 August 1943, and later in the war, based on the naming on his medals, may well have held the local rank of Squadron Leader. After the war, Whorlow re-joined the reconstituted R.A.F.V.R. and served until 1964. He relinquished his commission on 16 February 1949 as a Flying Officer, retaining the rank of Flight Lieutenant on his appointment to the R.A.F.V.R. On the same date he was appointed a Flying Officer, R.A.F.V.R., Technical Branch. In 1951 Flying Officer Whorlow was promoted Flight Lieutenant serving in the Photographic Interpretation Branch, Supplementary (Ground) List. He was awarded the Air Efficiency Award by A.M.O. 28 of January 1959 and was awarded his Second Award Bar in 1964.

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