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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 109

(x) Four: Sergeant A. E. Rose, Royal Air Force, a Sergeant Navigator with No. 150 & 70 Squadron who flew from Italy 1944-45 and who kept a fine documentary record of his war

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (4)

Albert Edward Rose trained as a Navigator at No. 48 Air School from May-June 1943, then at No. 41 Air School, both in South Africa, from July-October 1943. Moving the Middle East, he was assigned to No. 77 O.T.U. in Palestine from May-July 1944, when he was assigned to an operational squadron in Italy. Beginning combat flying with No. 150 Squadron in mid-July, 1944, he flew 41 operations, including four bombing missions to the oil refineries at Ploesti and the Romanian capital of Bucharest. He also bombed targets in Austria, northern Italy, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. Posted to No. 70 Squadron in October 1944, he flew missions to drop supplies to the Yugoslav partisans for the remainder of this tour, which ended in January 1945. He was released to become a Police Constable.

Sold together with a fine original archive of material comprising his Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book (D.D. 461 A.), a plethora of bombing photos of many of his targets, two combat reports of encounters with German fighters, 39 Navigators Flight Log sheets of his operational combat flights (these most unusual and informative), original mission map for his longest mission, a bombing raid on the German tank factory at St. Valentin, Austria on September on 20 August 20 1944, signed dress shirt collar, besides his Service and Release book and a copy disc Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.


Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£700

Starting price
£350