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Auction: 13003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 80

Family Group:
Four: Sergeant J.P.S. Worling, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, extremely fine, in card box of issue, named to 'J. Worling, Esq., Coyle View, Ballator, Aberdeenshire, Scotland', with named Air Council condolence slip; and portrait photograph of the recipient

Six: J. Fehrsen, South African Forces
1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed '229955 J. Fehrsen', very fine, mounted as worn, with two South African Tank Corps badges; Union Defence Forces enclosure; and a photograph of the recipient

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) Badge, attributed to Mrs. J. Johnston, silver, nearly extremely fine, on lady's bow riband

Pair: M.A. Griffith-Jones
Jubilee 1935 (M.A. Griffith-Jones); Coronation 1937, nearly extremely fine, mounted as worn, together with the recipient's related miniature awards (13)

1280312 Sergeant John Patterson Smith 'Jack' Worling, the brother-in-law of Lieutenant D.L. Griffith-Jones, served during the Second World War with No.15 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; killed in action, 13.4.1942, when his Stirling was shot down over the North Sea by an enemy night fighter during Operation Gardening, and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.

John Fehrsen was the husband of Lieutenant D.L. Griffith-Jones's sister-in-law.

Mrs. J. Johnston, of Aberdeen, was Jack Worling's aunt.

Mr. Michael Arthur Griffith-Jones, the youngest brother of Squadron Leader J.M. Griffith-Jones, D.F.C., and Lieutenant D.L. Griffith-Jones; born 1925; served as a Boy Chorister at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1934-39; later a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge, 1943-46; and Vicar-Choral at St. Paul's Cathedral, 1947-51.

For other medals to the Griffith-Jones family see Lots 21 and 79.

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