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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 69

A Fascinating and Well-Documented Second War Group of Four to Auster Pilot Captain J.H. Wansey-Jackson, Royal Artillery, attached No. 652 (Air Observation Post) Squadron, Royal Air Force
1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, about extremely fine, with the recipient´s scrapbook, covering his career from the Normandy landings through to post-war Germany as a member of the B.A.O.R., the contents including his handwritten monthly reports; over 250 photographs, many being air-to-ground intelligence shots taken from No. 652 Squadron´s Austers, but also including a fine series of pictures taken in the chaos of immediate post-war Germany; various assorted banknotes, newspaper cuttings, and leaflets; a signed receipt for ´1 - Mercedes Benz´, delivered by Wansey-Jackson to H.Q., 31st A.A. Artillery Brigade, 21.5.1945; examples of German and Allied ´anti-radar paper´ from the Caen battlefront; and several embroidered unit shoulder flashes, among them a most unusual and rare ´Three Witches´ badge of I.S.9 (Western European Area), a component of M.I.9 (4)

Sold for
£1,200