Single Campaign Medals
The following day Frederiksen, once again paired with Lieutenant Mike Hale, launched from Hermes at dawn for the first air patrol of the day. Approaching Goose Green, they sighted the Coast Guard patrol boat Rio Iguazu on its way up Choiseul Sound, carrying field guns and and ammunition to reinforce the Argentine defences. The pair dived on the boat, strafed it with 30mm cannon, and left it burning. Later it was seen aground among the kelp in Button Bay, still burning, having been abandoned by its crew.
Completing more hours on air defence than any other pilot flying from H.M.S. Hermes, Frederikson undertook 55 Combat Air Patrols during the conflict, as well as bombing missions over Goose Green and Port Stanley. For his services in the South Atlantic he was Mentioned in Despatches.
After the Falklands War, Frederikson returned to Boscombe Down, flight testing an updated Sea Harrier, armed with the Sea Eagle air- to-surface missile. From 1985 until 1988 he commanded 800 Naval Air Squadron himself, flying from the carrier H.M.S. Illustrious. On one occasion being reprimanded after faulty navigation equipment took him close to Murmansk, a scrape which earned him the nickname ‘Red Fred’. In 1988 he passed the Naval Staff course, but disliked the desk-bound environment and the following year he joined B.A.E., in order to continue flying, serving as a Test Pilot at Dunsfold. There he test-flew improved marks of Harrier, until, when armed with the latest AMRAAM, it became Britain’s most effective air defence fighter. Remaining in the role until 1994, his second Q. C.V.S.A. was gazetted in June of that year (Rodney Vincent Frederiksen, Sea Harrier Project Pilot, British Aerospace Defence Limited). Between 1995 and 1997 he was based in Dabolim, Goa, where he helped to train Indian naval pilots to fly their Harriers and later he also trained Indonesian pilots to fly the Hawk, before his last job in 2003, teaching on the simulator at 208 Squadron at R.A.F. Valley, Wales. He was a popular leader who commanded respect, was ‘as fun to fly with as to crash in the bar’ who showed concern for his men and who passed on his love of flying to all his students.
Frederikson died on 27 September 2009, and fittingly his last ‘take off’ was marked by a flypast. As one mourner at his funeral remarked: ‘Good weather did allow the flypasts. At the precise moment Fred’s coffin arrived outside his house, with family and friends gathered in the street to meet him, a GR9 Tornado fighter-bomber from 800 Sqn (NSW) passed directly overhead. The timing was perfect to the second - as you would no doubt expect. A few moments later a Typhoon Eurofighter from Warton, with two hawks from NFSF(FW) in Vic, also flew over. Once overhead the Hawks peeled off smartly into echelon as the typhoon plugged in the carrots and pulled into the vertical. The Hawks, resplendent in their Fly Navy 100 livery, then returned for a final slow pass before departing. It was a most fitting tribute, and all who were present were incredibly moved.’
Sold with the following original items and documents: The recipient’s three Flying Log Books covering the period March 1968 (training flights in Chipmunks) to December 1987 (Sea Harriers); his riband bar in original box of issue and related miniature South Atlantic 1982 medal and cloth wings; his original Mentioned in Despatches certificate; his Q.C.V.S.A. certificate, dated 31 December 1977; his officer’s cap with cloth and metal badge; two Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander (Air Branch) epaulettes; Royal Navy cloth and metal peaked cap badge; metal tankard engraved ‘Lt Cdr Rod Frederiksen 809 Squadron July - December 1982; two hard back books - ‘Falklands the Air War’ by Burden, Draper, Rough and Smith, and ‘Air War South Atlantic’ by Ethell and Price; and an album containing a quantity of high quality original photographs of the recipient at various stages of his career, including during and shortly after the Falklands conflict, a copy of the London Gazette, 11 October 1982, containing the recipient’s M.I.D. announcement, various certificates relating to flying and other qualifications, and a quantity of invitations, articles and ephemera.
Sold also with a print of an original painting, oil on canvas, by the artist Jack Froelich, of Petersfield, depicting the moment Frederiksen launched his Sidewinder air-to-air missile to bring down the Argentinean jet, San Carlos Water, 21 May 1982, entitled ‘Is this a Dagger which I see before me?’, mounted in a glazed display frame.
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South Atlantic 1982, with rosette (Mne S Jacques P040796F RM) nearly extremely fine
£700-£900
Stephen Jacques was a native of Hull. He served with K Company, 42 Commando during the Falklands War, and the Operation Corporate Field Record Office Casualty list states ‘Shell Shock’ in reference to his service there. K Company were engaged in the Battle for Mount Harriet, 11/12 June 1982. Jacques died six months later, aged 18, whilst on ski exercise in Norway - one of a number of 42 Commando men caught in a freak blizzard.
Sold with photographic images of recipient, copied research - including a copy of a letter sent to the recipient’s widow from Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle, Commandant General Royal Marines.
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