Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Mustang Pilot Flying Officer R. H. M. Bailey, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who was killed over northern France on 25 September 1943

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Air Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mrs. C. M. Bailey, 34, Douglas Park Crescent, Bearsden, Glasgow’, extremely fine (3) £300-£400

Richard Harry Mellor Bailey joined the Metropolitan Police on 19 November 1934, and served as a Station Inspector with V Division. He was commissioned Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 5 August 1942, and was promoted Flying Officer on 5 February 1943. He served with 4 Squadron during the Second World War, and piloting a Mustang 1 (AG426) was killed whilst on a ranger sortie in the Dreux area of northern France on the morning of 25 September 1943. He is buried in the Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery, Hautot-sur-Mer, France.

His medals were sent to his widow, Mrs. Christina Morrison Bailey.