Auction Catalogue
Six: Wing Commander (Reverend) P. O’Donoghue, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Sqn. Ldr. (Rev.), R.A.F.), mounted as worn, with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, slight contact marks, very fine (12) £240-280
P. O’Donoghue was born on 23 January 1903. A Roman Catholic Chaplain, he was commissioned a Squadron Leader on 12 January 1942. Appointed a Wing Commander on 12 January 1956, he retired on 23 January 1958. It is believed that The Reverend O’Donoghue later served as Roman Catholic Priest at Blaydon, Tyne and Wear.
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