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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 151

Three: Flight Sergeant H. M. Foskett, Royal Air Force, who flew operationally as a Navigator (Radio) in Mosquitoes of No. 96 Squadron 1943-44

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, clasp, Atlantic; War Medal 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure, ticker tape confirming entitlement, service number and rank and addressed to 'H. Foskett, Esq., 2 Oak Avenue, Ickenham, Uxbridge, Middx.', extremely fine (3)

Note: His Log Book, with a group of unattributed Medals were sold at DNW in 2011. Since re-united with the Medals and offered complete in this Lot.

Henry Maxwell Foskett was born on 7 October 1916 and attended an Observer’s (Radio) Navigation Course from December 1942-March 1943. After an Operational Training Unit, Foskett was posted to No. 96 Squadron in October 1943, a Beaufighter unit then operating out of Drem, but shortly to convert to Mosquitos and move to West Malling, and thence, with the advent of the Normandy landings, to Ford and Odiham.

Between then and December 1944, Foskett remained actively employed, completing numerous regular patrols and anti-V-weapon sorties (a.k.a. ‘Diver Patrols’), in addition to night fighter activity amounting to around 30 hours flying time, some of these latter notched up in immediate support of D-Day with Flight Lieutenant Phoenix as his pilot. He was “rested” at the end of the year on being posted to an instructor’s course. Foskett took work as a pharmacist and died in Watford in November 1998.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book (Form 1767), covering the period December 1942 until March 1945 and Navigator's cloth brevet.

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£320