Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Pilot Officer E. A. Vagg, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with original Air Council condolence slip in the typed name of ‘Pilot Officer E. A. Vagg’, extremely fine (3) £140-160

Edward Alan Vagg was killed on 15 May 1940, after returning from a “Ploughing” operation to the Ruhr in a Hampden of No. 83 Squadron. His aircraft crashed near Louth, Lincolnshire, ‘having responded correctly to an anti-aircraft battery’. Vagg was interred in Sketty (St. Paul’s) Churchyard, Glamorganshire, near where his parents lived.