Auction: 12044 - The Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust Appeal Charity Auction
Lot: 36
A Well-Documented Second War ´Caterpillar Club´ Group of Three to Ventura Navigator Flight Lieutenant P.C. Middleton, Royal Air Force, Shot Down Over Occupied France, 3.2.1943, He Spent the Rest of The War as a Prisoner in the Infamous Stalag Luft III1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, extremely fine, with the following related items:- The recipient´s Caterpillar Club brooch Badge, silver-gilt, the reverse engraved ´F/O P.C. Middleton´, with related Membership Card and two letters from Leslie L. Irvin- Air Observer Brevet- Bomber Command Commemorative Medal 1939-45- The recipient´s Prisoner of War Identity tag- Various telegrams and letters, both official and personal, to the recipient´s family, informing them that the recipient was Missing in Action, 3.2.1943, and had subsequently been made Prisoner of War- Copies of letters written by the recipient to his wife whilst a Prisoner of War, describing life and conditions in Stalag Luft III- Copy of the recipient´s account of the evacuation of Stalag Luft III, 27.1.1945- Various photographs of the recipient, both in uniform and as part of the Stalag Luft III theatre company (lot)
Sold for
£1,300
