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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 420

A 1940 A.F.M. group of three awarded to Flight Lieutenant, late Flight Sergeant G. P. Hall, Royal Air Force, who was latterly killed in a flying accident in 1943

Air Force Medal, G.VI.R. (365362. F/Sgt. G. P. Hall. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, claw a little loose, very fine (3)

15 A.F.M.'s awarded in 1940 of just 306 during the Second World War.

A.F.M. London Gazette 11 July 1940.

George Patrick Hall won his A.F.M. in the early days of the Second World War and was commissioned Pilot Officer on 16 July 1940. Advanced Flight Lieutenant on 26 May 1942, he was serving with 5PAFU by the start of 1943. Flying Master III W8507 as a Flight Instructor from Calveley Airfield, he was killed in a crash on 3 April 1943, aged just 35. He is buried in the Chester (Blacon) Cemetery and would almost certainly have added an A.F.C. to his laurels had he not been killed; sold together with leather folder in which the medals have been stored and copied research.

A report on the crash is held in the National Archives (AVIA 5/22/W1506, refers).

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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£1100