CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 1470
A good Caterpillar Club membership group of three awarded to Flight Sergeant W. A. Boyd, Royal Air Force, who was compelled to take to his parachute in the famous Peenemunde raid of August 1943
1939-45 STAR; AIR CREW EUROPE STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, together with the recipient’s CATERPILLAR CLUB MEMBERSHIP BADGE, gold, with ruby eyes, the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Sgt. W. A. Boyd’, good very fine or better (4)
£400-500
William Alexander “Bill” Boyd participated in the famous Peenemunde raid on the night of 17-18 August 1943, flying in Lancaster JA 892 of No. 49 Squadron, which was shot down by night fighters and crashed near Greifswald. Two crew members were killed but the remainder, including Boyd, baled out and were taken P.O.W.
Two accounts of the aircraft’s fate are to be found in Martin Middlebrook’s Peenemunde Raid, one of them, by the Navigator, Flying Officer Philip Duckham, stating:
‘Almost immediately after taking up our new heading, after bombing, we were attacked from the rear. The Rear Gunner was able to give avoiding instructions of about two ‘Turn ports’ before the ‘Go!’ He discharged his guns at about the same time as the enemy fighter discharged his. How successful our shots were, I cannot say. We were hit but, in view of what followed, I do not think the full extent of the damage to the aircraft from this attack. The last words uttered by the Rear Gunner were, “The bastard’s got my sights.” The bastard had also got him!
At almost the same time as the attack from the rear, we were again attacked, this time from the starboard beam. The starboard wing was set alight and, as the flames would reach the petrol tanks in a few seconds, causing the aircraft to explode, the pilot gave the order to abandon aircraft ... ’
Boyd was latterly incarcerated in Stalag 4B at Muhlberg on the Elbe; sold with a commemorative envelope of the First Reunion of the Caterpillar Club 1968.
1471 Six: Flight Sergeant V. A. Jewel, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS; AIR EFFICIENCY AWARD, E.II.R., with additional long service bar (2692143 Sgt. V. A. Jewell, R. Aux. A.F.) very fine or better (6)
£100-150
Sold with an article about the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, published in Winter 1977, which gives mention of the recipient: ‘Amongst the ‘old hands’, Flight Sergeant Vic Jewell was in the Army on anti-aircraft radar during the war but plumped for the RAuxAF in 1951 because he ‘just liked the idea’.
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Four: attributed to Corporal E. Cassidy, Royal Tank Regiment, killed/died, Italy, 19 July 1943 1939-45 STAR AFRICA STAR, clasp, 8th Army; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed, extremely fine (4)
With named condolence slip and medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs E. Rea, 9 Sheaf Lane, Sheldon, Birmingham 26’. 1473 Five: Staff Sergeant R. C. Kewley, Royal Engineers
1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS, these unnamed; GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (22561330 S/Sgt., R.E.) contact marks, nearly very fine (5)
£50-70 1474
Three: Sapper T. W. Fletcher, Royal Engineers, who died in the Far East on 23 June 1945 1939-45 STAR; BURMA STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, all unnamed, extremely fine (3)
£40-60
Corporal Eugene Cassidy, 50th Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C. was killed/died in Italy on 19 July 1943, aged 36 years. His name is commemorated on the Cassino Memorial.
£70-90
Thomas Wagstaffe Fletcher, 29 Movement Control Group, R.E., died/was killed, on 23 June 1945, aged 20 years. His name is commemorated in the Rangoon War Cemetery.
With named condolence slip and card medal forwarding box, addressed to ‘Mr C. E. Fletcher, The Laurels, Idridgehay, Derby.’ 1475 Five: F. B. Beard, South African Forces
1939-45 STAR; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS;AFRICA SERVICEMEDALS, all officially named (11710 F. G. Beard) mounted as worn, good very fine (5)
£30-50
With the book, The Experiences of a Lifetime, by Fred Beard, 70pp. Together with a newspaper clipping of his obituary in The Natal Mercury, 30 August 1990 and some handwritten notes on his military service.
1476
Five: Driver A. V. Brimelow, Royal Army Service Corps 1939-45 STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, these unnamed; EFFICIENCY MEDAL,
G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (T/81592 Dvr., RASC.) mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of five miniature dress medals
Pair: H. A. Moag, South African Forces WAR AND AFRICA SERVICE MEDALS, both officially impressed (39567 H. A. Moag) very fine and better (12)
£40-60
Medals to Moag with Union Defence Forces medal forwarding slip, together with registered envelope addressed to ‘Mnr/Mr H. A. Moag, Winston, M’Kondeni, P.O. Box 665 Pietermaritzburg, Natal.’
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