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Interview with Jim Auton
Jim Auton grew up on Royal Air Force stations and joined the Royal Air Force at seventeen. He trained as a pilot navigator and bomber at RAF Ansty near Coventry, then in South Africa under the Empire Air Training Scheme. He trained on B-24s at Lidder…
Postagram from Charles Portal congratulating Spencer Lewis Belton on Distinguished Flying Medal
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Postagram from Charles Portal to Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton RAF Hemswell congratulating on Distinguished Flying Medal.
Letter from Spencer Lewis Belton to his father
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Letter from Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton to his father. Discusses the news of Distinguished Flying Medal and a broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation about its award.
Congratulation letter to Spencer Lewis Belton
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Letter congratulating Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton on the award of his Distinguished Flying Medal.
Petition for award
Petition for the award of Distinguished Flying Cross to Pilot Officer William Frank Tudhope and Distinguished Flying Medal to Sergeant Lewis Smith Belton. Provides details about the operation on Wilhelmshaven, damage by anti-aircraft fire, then the…
Father receives son’s D.F.M. King's award to missing airman
S Belton received a Distinguished Flying Medal for his son Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton. He was educated at Southend High School, worked in a bank and on his father’s farm.
Pilot gets D.F.C. and gunner D.F.M.
Details of awards of Distinguished Flying Crosses and Distinguished Flying Medals to aircrew.
Hail these heroes of Empire. Eleven new awards to men of the R.A.F.
Distinguished Flying Crosses and Distinguished Flying Medals issued to aircrew with details on the operation undertaken.
Hero of 21 RAF raids gets DFC
Distinguished Flying Crosses and Distinguished Flying Medals issued to aircrew, with details on the operations.
From: The People, 4 August 1940, p. 6.
From: The People, 4 August 1940, p. 6.
Honour for Southend airman
Details of the award of Distinguished Flying Medal to Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton
Letter to S Belton
Letter from the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood to Mr S Belton requesting attendance for presentation of Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton.
Foulness Island war memorial
The memorial honours three fallen of the parish: Spencer Lewis Belton, Raymond William Cook and Frank Hume.
Notification of award to Spencer Lewis Belton
Notification of Distinguished Flying Medal to Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton.
No 9 course air gunners
Group portrait of 14 aircrew all with air gunner’s brevets formally arranged in three ranks, five seated, the rest standing. The man in the middle of the front row is wearing a peaked cap while the rest are in side caps. The group is in grass yard…
Air Gunner’s Brevet and joke medal
The brevet is pinned to a Distinguished Flying Medal ribbon with an imitation medal ribbon and cardboard iron cross. On the reverse ‘Garanteed ferous [sic] metal'.
Distinguished Flying Medal
Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to Edward Milling.
Letter to Mrs E Milling from M T Derbyshire
Notification that Flight Sergeant Edward Milling has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, with citation.
Invitation to Buckingham Palace
Invitation to E Milling to attend at Buckingham Palace on 14 May 1946 to receive the Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to her late husband.
Letter to Mrs E Milling from the Royal Air Force Record Office
Record Office letter to Mrs E Milling forwarding the citation from the London Gazette 'relative to the award of the Distinguished Flying Medal to your late husband'.
Interview with Fred Young
Fred Young volunteered for the Royal Air Force at seventeen and flew operations as a flight engineer with 57 Squadron from RAF East Kirkby. He recounts his experiences on several operations including Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Essen, Munich,…
Interview with Arthur Loudon
Arthur Loudon was born and raised in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. He talks about his early life, jobs and family, before he enlisted in 1943, aged nineteen, into the Royal Australian Air Force. He was trained as a navigator at various…
Interview with Philip Batty
Philip Batty grew up in Walsall. He discusses the death of his older brother Dennis, a wireless operator with 226 Squadron, early in the Second World War. Philip volunteered for aircrew. After training, he was posted to 50 Squadron at RAF Sturgate as…
Tom Sayer
Head and shoulders portrait of Tom Sayer wearing peaked cap a tunic with pilots brevet and medal ribbons including the Distinguished Flying Medal.
Tom Sayer outside Buckingham Palace with his parents
Tom Sayer at Buckingham Palace with his parents, John and Ella, about to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. Tom Sayer in greatcoat and peaked cap stands between his mother and father both wearing civilian coats. In the background a crowd of…
Operations with 102 Squadron Pocklington and 10 OTU detachment, St Eval
At the back a map showing targets for operations in the Ruhr and rest of Germany as well as France and north Italy. There are two indications for German night fighters damaged and shot down. At the top a newspaper cutting headlined 'Huge explosion in…