Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Leading Aircraftman A. F. Rawlings, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Ministry issue slip, one part of the ‘ticker tape’ strip with the four medals marked with a cross, and named hand completed issue strip counter-stamped with squadron stamp of 345 (F) Squadron Orderly Room, in named Air Ministry box of issue addressed to ‘A. F. Rawlings, Esq., 28 Beecheys Avenue, Marston, Oxford’, extremely fine

Three: Corporal T. W. Peacock, Royal Air Force
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, both unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (1453097 Cpl. T. W. Peacock. R.A.F.) very fine and better (7) £100-£140

345 Squadron R.A.F. was a Free French ground attack fighter squadron given a Royal Air Force squadron number during the Second World War. The squadron followed the allied advance from the Normandy beachheads across Europe and by November 1945 was based at Friedrichshafen, Germany. It was under R.A.F. control until 27 November 1945 when it transferred to French control.