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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 606

An Important and Interesting 'South African Air Force Pilot's Flying Log Book' - Flight Lieutenant F. E. Moore, D.F.C., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, an Accomplished Photographer Veteran of a Number of Low Level Raids Including those on Amiens Prison, Gestapo H.Q. Odense, and Phlilips, Eindhoven
Log Book (June 1942-April 1945), together with Moore's original War Photographers' Pass (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force 30.1.1945)

D.F.C. London Gazette 14.9.1945 Flight Lieutenant F.E.Moore , R.A.F.V.R., 4 (Film Production Unit)
Flight Lieutenant Frank Edward 'Ted' Moore, D.F.C. born in Cape Province, South Africa, 1914, came to England in the 1930's and at the outbreak of the war joined the R.A.S.C. as a projectionist. Sometime after his evacuation from Dunkirk he was accepted by the R.A.F. for Aircrew training, at home and in South Africa and qualified for his pilots wings in March 1943. He transferred to photographic duties and became Photographer Navigator. From October 1943 to April 1945 he flew a number of interesting low level missions (Log-Book refers), including those on 'D' Day beaches, Entry of Allied Forces into Paris, Arnhem, the dive bombing of V.2 sites, Gestapo H.Q. at Copenhagen and at Odense (D.F.C. and French Croix de Guerre). Ted Moore was acknowledged as one of the most talented and dedicated cameramen of the post war era. His credits include: The Trials of Oscar Wilde, and early Bond films Dr. No, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and Man With the Golden Gun; and A Man for All Seasons for which he received an Oscar in 1966
Ted Moore died in February 1988 aged 72.

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