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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 93

The Second War Group of Three to Sergeant J. Mainwaring, No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron, Royal Air Force, Killed in Action During a Raid on Bremen, 3.7.1942 1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, good very fine, with the following Prize Medals: Barrington Kennett Trophy Medal, R.A.F. Halton, Cross Country Senior 1939, white metal, reverse engraved ´A/A. Mainwaring J.´, in box of issue; No. 4 (A) Wing Inter-Sqdn Cross Country 1940 Medal, white metal, reverse engraved ´L.A.A. Mainwaring J.´ and Coronation Medallion 1937, white metal, reverse engraved ´Jack Mainwaring´ (lot) Estimate £ 140-180 572972 Sergeant Jack Mainwaring, born Yorkshire, 1921; educated at Keighley Grammar School and R.A.F. Halton, from January 1938; served during the Second World War with 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron (Stirlings), Marham, 1942; flew his final sortie to Bremen, 2/3.7.1942, in Stirling N3718 HA-C, piloted by Pilot Officer G.G. Jeary, ´T/o 2325 Marham. Last heard on w/t transmitting SOS, this message timed at 0028´ (Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, refers); the entire crew of seven were listed as missing in action presumed killed and are all commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

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