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Five: Major Alfred Alexander Lees, Indian Army
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, all unnamed; EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Capt.,
Indian Army) mounted court style for wear, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £80-100
Alfred Alexander Lees lived in India before the war and served in the ranks of the Auxiliary Force (India). He was granted an Emergency
Commission in the Indian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in September 1942. He was promoted to War Substantive Lieutenant in March
1943 and was subsequently advanced to Temporary Captain in January 1944. When he was released at the end of the war, he was
granted the honorary rank of Major. For his services in the Auxiliary Forces, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (Territorial), the
award published in the London Gazette of 18 April 1947. With some copied research.
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Five: Serjeant W. Smith, Royal Artillery
1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; EFFICIENCY MEDAL, G.VI.R., 1st issue,
Territorial (6550838 Sjt., R.A.) nearly extremely fine (5) £100-140
With London Schools Swimming Association Certificates (3) 1925 & 1927; L.C.C. Certificate for Scripture Knowledge, 1926-27; Church
Lads’ Brigade, London Division, Sergeant’s Certificate, 1932; W.W.2 medals card forwarding box, addressed to ‘Mr W. Smith, 131
Riversdale Rd., Highbury, London, N.5; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book (worn); Soldier’s Release Book; Certificate of Transfer to Army
Reserve, 1946; together with several other papers and three photographs - two relating to the 168 A.A. Battery R.A. (T.A.) Emergency
Mobilisation, 1938.
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A well-documented Coastal Command pilot’s Second World War campaign group of four awarded to Flight Lieutenant
F. Hughes, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who completed around 50 operational sorties in Sunderlands and
Swordfish of Coastal Command 1943-45, in which period his aircraft attacked U-Boats on at least two occasions - he
was subsequently killed in a flying accident
1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, in their original addressed card
forwarding box, extremely fine (4) £340-38
Frederick Hughes, who was born in Prestwich in October 1916, volunteered for the Royal Air Force in June 1939 and was embarked
for training in Canada and the U.S.A. in February 1942. Commissioned as a Pilot Officer in early 1943, he returned to the U.K. and, on
qualifying as a 2nd Pilot in Sunderlands of Coastal Command, was posted to No. 228 Squadron at Pembroke, in which unit he would
fly operationally over the Bay of Biscay until June 1944, mainly in the crews of Flight Lieutenants Squire or Bowie. His Flying Log Book
records some 30 anti-submarine patrols in this period and at least two attacks, one on a U-Boat off Brest on 4 January 1944, when
Squadron Leader Bailey was shot down, and another on 5 June 1944. So, too, other notable events, including ‘sighted F.W. Kurrier who
tried to attack’ on 31 December 1943 and the loss of Flight Lieutenant Grimshaw’s Sunderland in flames on 17 January 1944.
Qualifying as a 1st Pilot and advanced to war substantive Flight Lieutenant in January 1945, Hughes returned to the operational scene
in No. 119 Squadron, another Swordfish unit, and completed at least another 20 sorties off the Dutch and Belgium coasts, largely on
the prowl for further U-Boats.
Post-war, while employed in 1693 Communications Flight, a unit of the British Air Forces of Occupation (B.A.F.O.), Hughes was killed
in a flying accident on 25 June 1946 when his Anson struck a hill near Osnabruck.
Sold with a large quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s original Flying Log Book (R.C.A.F. type), covering the
period April 1942 to November 1945 - two or three opening pages absent and his earliest entries undated, but April would appear to
be the likely month in which his training commenced; together with his Buckingham Palace memorial scroll in the name of ‘Flight
Lieutenant F. Hughes, Royal Air Force’; R.A.F. identity card; assorted wartime period photographs (approximately 30), among them
several portrait photographs and scenes from his funeral service and burial, and much besides, including official correspondence,
training notes, mess invoices, telegrams, letters and postcards.
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