22nd Mar, 2024 10:00

Collectors' and Interiors

 
Lot 3
 

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A Second World War and post-War RAF pilot's campaign and long service medal group with Caterpillar Club badge, including George VI General Service Medal with South East Asia 1945-46 clasp to W O A W Davidson (1683563), Queen Elizabeth II GSM with Brunei and Borneo claps, and Long Service and Good Conduct medal to Davidson as Master Pilot, the Guinea Pig Club pin engraved to F/S A W Davidson and accompanied by a Certificate of Membership, also a Certificate of Service, photographs, insignia, two silk escape maps, a 1945 Air Ministry Telegram reporting Flight Sergeant Davidson as missing following bailing out of his aircraft, a news cutting obituary etc. [Alexander Wallace "Wally" Davidson (1924-2006) joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1942, in April of 1944 he qualified as a pilot, going on to serve in the Far East during late 1944, in December of that year his RAF Thunderbolt was downed by rebel Indonesian forces, causing him to bale out, wounded, (his Certificate of Service records gunshot wounds to chest and arm), upon leaving the RAF he flew in assistance of the fledgling Abu Dhabi air force becoming a personal pilot of His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.]

Sold for £1,500


 

A Second World War and post-War RAF pilot's campaign and long service medal group with Caterpillar Club badge, including George VI General Service Medal with South East Asia 1945-46 clasp to W O A W Davidson (1683563), Queen Elizabeth II GSM with Brunei and Borneo claps, and Long Service and Good Conduct medal to Davidson as Master Pilot, the Guinea Pig Club pin engraved to F/S A W Davidson and accompanied by a Certificate of Membership, also a Certificate of Service, photographs, insignia, two silk escape maps, a 1945 Air Ministry Telegram reporting Flight Sergeant Davidson as missing following bailing out of his aircraft, a news cutting obituary etc. [Alexander Wallace "Wally" Davidson (1924-2006) joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1942, in April of 1944 he qualified as a pilot, going on to serve in the Far East during late 1944, in December of that year his RAF Thunderbolt was downed by rebel Indonesian forces, causing him to bale out, wounded, (his Certificate of Service records gunshot wounds to chest and arm), upon leaving the RAF he flew in assistance of the fledgling Abu Dhabi air force becoming a personal pilot of His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.]