19th Jul, 2023 10:30
Air, Land & Sea: Militaria & Ethnographica
CATERPILLAR CLUB BROOCH AWARDED TO F/SGT. THOMAS DOCHERTY
WWII-PERIOD
with red cabouchon set eyes, inscribed F.SGT. T.DOCHERTY, in original box, presented alongside the relevant certificate, also his Late Arrivals Club certificate ...to certify F/Sergy. T. Dochert of 38 Squadron Middle East, is hereby nominated a member of the Late Arrivals Club in as much as he, in Cyrenaica on 25th February 1942 when obliged to abandon his Aircraft, on the ground or in the Air, as a result of unfriendly action by the enemy. Succeeded..., also two of his Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Books, himself qualified as Wireless Operator, and these extensively detailing his flights circa January 1940 through to December 1945, also two RAF handkerchiefs, six portrait photographs and five others
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Sold for £2,800
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
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