CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS
Warrant Officer Milton and his crew
Derek Roy Milton was born in May 1924 and entered the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in September 1942. Selected for pilot
training in May 1943, he was embarked for Canada, where he remained until returning to the U.K. in the summer of 1944 and, after
attending No. 21 A.F.U. in Staffordshire, was posted to No. 36 Squadron, Coastal Command, at Chivenor, Devon in January 1945.
Gaining further experience as a 2nd Pilot in the Squadron’s maritime Wellingtons, and shortly after 36’s move to Benbecula in the
Outer Hebrides in March 1945, Milton completed his first sortie - a convoy escort mission - on 15 April. Anti-U-boat patrols were also
very much part of the Squadron’s operational agenda, and it was on his fourth such sortie on 9 May that his Wellington, captained by
Warrant Officer Coleman, took the surrender of the U-1058 - around 45 U-Boats were operating in the Atlantic or British inshore
waters at the time of Admiral Doenitz’s message to them to surrender, the majority making for Loch Eriboll near Scapa, and all of them
under instructions to fly a black flag on surfacing.
Having completed one or two more sorties, Milton was transferred to an Operational Training Unit and was demobilised in November
1946.
Sold with the recipient’s original Flying Log Book (R.C.A.F. pilot’s issue), covering the period June 1943 to January 1946, together with
his R.A.F. Service and Release Book and several interesting wartime photographs, among them an image of the U-1058 taken on 9 May
1945, signed by Milton and his fellow crew.
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Four: Sub. Lieutenant (A.) A. J. Southall, Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve, a Swordfish and Avenger pilot who flew operationally from
MAC ships on the North Atlantic run and out of R.A.F. Hawkinge, the
latter posting resulting in a confirmed flying bomb
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; PACIFIC STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, good very
fine and better (4) £250-300
A. J. Southall commenced pilot training in April 1943, attended the Deck
Landing School at Easthaven that August, and joined 836 Squadron, a Swordfish
unit, at the Fleet Air Arm base Shrike at Maydown, Northern Ireland towards the
end of the same year, where pilots and aircraft were allocated for service in
merchant aircraft carriers (MACs) in protection of North Atlantic convoys.
Southall - who appears to have served in ‘’ Flight - flew his first anti-submarine
and shipping patrols that December and remained similarly employed until May,
often operating from the decks of the Empire MacColl.
Having then attended a conversion course at R.N.A.S. Stretton, he returned to an
operational footing with 855 Squadron, an Avenger unit based at R.A.F.
Hawkinge on attachment to R.A.F. Coastal Command. And it was in this latter
capacity that he flew at least 15 operational patrols in the period July-August
1944, one of them resulting in the downing of a Flying Bomb (’Exploded in Air.
Confirmed’), and another in an attack on four E-Boats.
Sold with the recipient’s original Flying Log Book (R.A.F. pilot’s edition), covering
the period April 1943 to August 1944, with closing endorsement, ‘This Log Book
adrift with luggage when taking up appointment in 857 Squadron. See later Log
Book for subsequent flying’; together with a good run of wartime photographs (17
images), including carrier deck scenes, etc.
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