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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 524

Three: Flight Lieutenant I. W. J. Robertson, Royal Air Force,

Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., unnamed, the last toned, otherwise extremely fine (3)

Air Efficiency remains unconfirmed.

Iain William James Robertson was born on 29 January 1917. He enlisted as an Aircraftsman 2nd Class in May 1940. He received his Air Navigator's Certificate, Second Class on 19 May 1944.

He became an Air Traffic Control Officer from the end of the Second World War and was based at R.A.F. Kinloss. He was released from the Royal Air Force on 18 August 1947 and became an Officer of Customs and Excise for over 33 years, retiring in 1981. He died in 2019.

Sold together with the following original archive comprising:

(i)
R.A.F. Identity Card for R.A.F. personnel.

(ii)

R.A.F. Service and Release Book.

(iii)
R.A.F. Air Navigator's Certificate Second Class.

(iv)
Note relating to his appearance as a witness for the Defence of F/L. D.S.Bielby, dated 9 December 1946.

(v)
Box of issue for WW2 campaign medals addressed to him at 5 Rosebery Crescent, Edinburgh.

(vi)
Navigator wings and Observer's wings.

(vii)
Uniform riband bar for three medals.

(viii)
Dog Tags.

(ix)
A quantity of ephemera, ration books, identity cards etc.

(x)
Assorted military and civilian photographs.

(xi)
Sewing kit.

(xii)
A number of pre-war, wartime and post war diaries.

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Sold for
£120

Starting price
£100