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Blue single stripe.

Brass 'VR' badge

Silver flying badge with blue and red enamel, Brooch pin.

Badge with crown, eagle and wreath.

War Medal 1939–1945, 1939–1945 Star, Air Crew Europe Star.

Box with ribbon with clasp inside. Labelled 'Bomber Command Clasp, Plt Off S F N Fox, 143802'.

Cloth badge - observers brevet.

Squadron badge of crest and motto.

A leather bag used for keeping Chan's log book.

Brown leather lockable briefcase. Name Bennett in white paint on rear.

A 11.25mm automatic pistol given to Chan by members of the Norwegian resistance, on 15th May 1945.

#1 the front.
#2 a badge.
#3 a close up of the badge.
#4 the back.
#5 a corroded stud and a plug for heating.
#6 a second view of #5.
#7 the front of the jacket opened up.

Items associated with Tommy having been declared missing and evading. Includes an identity card, two letters and a telegram.

A gold caterpillar with red stone eyes. Reverse stamped 'WO T FAIRCLOUGH'.

A pair of clip on earrings each decorated with four pale blue enamel five petalled flowers. Reverse is stamped' 925S' with 'AM' below a crown.

Brooch with a single feathered wing attached to a laurel wreath with the letters AG in blue enamel. The reverse is stamped 'sterling'.

Three cloth badges.
617 squadron, air gunner and RAF Officer cap badge.

Nine medals awarded to Chan.
1-4 For bravery from Russia, both sided, two copies.
5 and 6 DFC box, closed and open with ribbon.
7-8 both sides of eight medals, DFC, 1939 to 1945 Star, Atlantic Star, Air crew Europe Star, Italy Star, Arctic Star,…

A white silk handkerchief with white tasselled edging. In one corner the Royal Air Force crest and motto has been embroidered.

A blue silk handkerchief edged in lace with the Royal Air Force crest and motto embroidered in the corner.

A triangular piece of aircraft wreckage with three bolts attached and a central round port.

Medal and ribbon in case with ticket for one to investiture at Buckingham Palace.

Four decorations: Air Crew Europe Star, 1939 to 1945 Star (both with ribbons), Defence Medal and War Medal 1939 to 1945 (both without ribbons).

Brown leather wallet with photograph of a woman wearing swim suit, and cards for Polaris Flight Academy (certificate of flight training completed and gold star merit award - both to E Thomson).

George Thomson’s prisoner of war diary in a wartime log supplied by the YMCA.
Describes being shot down and includes a day-by-day account of his life as a prisoner of war from 11 November 1944 to 25 May 1945. Includes descriptions of sports and…