Campaign Groups and Pairs 364
Three: Flight Sergeant Air Gunner D. E. Hills, 75 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who took part in the Dresden Raid, 13-14 February 1945
1939-45 Star, 1 clasp, Bomber Command; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3)
£200-£240
Donald Eric Hills was was born on 31 May 1925 and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 13 December 1943. He served during the Second World War as an Air Gunner in 75 (New Zealand) Squadron from December 1944, flying Lancasters, and undertook his first operational sortie, a bombing raid on industrial targets in the Ruhr, on 12 December of that year. Further targets included the marshalling yards at Cologne and Vohwinkel, before he took part in the famous raid on Dresden, 13-14 February 1945, during which his aircraft suffered ‘moderate flak’ (the recipient’s Log Book refers).
Hills undertook further operational sorties against further German targets, including Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen (both three times), and was advanced Flight Sergeant. He was discharged on 18 February 1946.
Sold together with the recipient’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book; R.A.F. Service and Release Book; cap badges, Air Gunners brevets, cloth rank insignia, and various Squadron lapel badges; a copy of Britain’s Wonderful Air Force, by Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes; and various photographs and other ephemera.
365 Three: Inspector D. L. C. Pharazyn, Kenya Police, late Lieutenant, Black Watch
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (M.549 I.P.I.(R) D. L. C. Pharazyn.) good very fine (3)
£140-£180
Dennis Louis Charles Pharazyn was born on 7 November 1925, and educated at Marlborough College, May 1939-July 1943. He enlisted into the R.A.F. in 1944, joined the Black Watch in 1945 and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant on 7 April 1946, and attached to 2nd Gurkha Rifles, 1946-47. He relinquished his commission in November 1953 and was granted honorary rank of Lieutenant. He was by then a resident farmer at Kitale, Kenya, where he also served in the Police Reserve. In June 1954, he and another European Kenya Police Reserve officer were both acquitted at Nakuru of a charge of assaulting and causing bodily harm to a Kikuyu Mau Mau suspect. Pharazyn later ran a small charter company called Pharazyn Air Charters at Kitale, a centre for European settlers in the Kenya Highlands. He was killed in a freak flying accident on Karkloof ridge on the evening of 11 November 1969.
Sold with full research including several copied news cuttings covering the court proceedings of his trial. 366 Four: Flying Officer C. H. C. Nicholls, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (859579 Cpl. C. H. C. Nicholls. A.A.F.); Cadet Forces Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Fg. Off. C. H. C. Nicholls. R.A.F.V.R. (T)) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240
Charles Henry Cecil Nicholls was born in West Ham, Essex, on 28 February 1901 and served as a Leading Aircraftman in the Barrage Balloon Squadrons in Britain in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War. Advanced Corporal, he was awarded his Air Efficiency Award on 10 February 1949.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant for service on the Special List with the Army Cadet Force in Gloucestershire on 1 April 1948, Nicholls was promoted Lieutenant on 12 June 1950, and was appointed to a commission as Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 18 March 1958. He was awarded his Cadet Forces Medal on 1 April 1960, and resigned his commission on 22 October 1961. He died in Rhuddlan, Wales, in 1981.
Sold with copied research. 367 Three: Lieutenant A. A. Wood, Royal Tanks
War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Lt. A. A. Wood. R. Tks.); Efficiency Decoration, E.II.R., Territorial, reverse officially dated 1960, with integral top riband bar, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (3)
£180-£220 368 Pair: Private D. Johns, Army Air Corps
War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14031100 Pte D Johns AAC) the GSM a slightly later issue, about extremely fine (2)
£60-£80 369 Pair: Miss M. E. Burgess, British Red Cross Society
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya,
G.VI.R. (Miss. M. E. Burgess.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine, rare (2)
£140-£180 370 Pair: Stoker Mechanic A. G. Harling, Royal Navy
Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (P/KX. 787218 A. G. Harling. S.M. R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, in card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. A. G. Harling, 76 Percy Street, Bootle, Liverpool, 20.’, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£120
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