Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Attributed to Flight Lieutenant (Observer) H. D. Richards, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (4) £60-£80

Harry Dennis Richards served as Leading Aircraftman in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve with service No. 1395098. He was commissioned Pilot Officer, on probation, on 19 March 1943, and was further promoted to be War Substantive Flying Officer on 19 September 1943, and to War Substantive Flight Lieutenant on 19 March 1945. Harry Dennis Richards married Maud Reynolds at Islington in January 1945.

Sold with original R.A.F. medal riband entitlement slip named to 151667 F/O H. D. Richards, confirming entitlement to wear the ribands of the 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star and Defence Medal signed by Group Captain D. Ross Shore, of Fighter Command, R.A.F. Bentwater; single Flying Officer’s uniform epaulette; two original officer portrait photographs in uniform and several smaller photographs in other ranks uniform wearing observer’s brevet half wings; another in civilian dress; R.A.F. group photograph with Airspeed Oxford training aircraft, in distressed condition; the lot accompanied by his wife’s Royal Air Force Service and Release book named to Leading Aircraft Woman M. Richards, No. 472257, who had served as a teleprinter operator and telephonist; her R.A.F. notebook; several other photographs and a related family ration book.