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Auction: 6007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 423

A Second War D.F.C. Group of Seven to Spitfire Pilot Flight Lieutenant W.W. Peet, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Later Flying Officer, Royal Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R., reverse dated 1945; 1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, with France and Germany Bar; Defence and War Medals; New Zealand War Service Medal; General Service Medal 1918-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Malaya (Fg. Off. W.W. Peet. R.A.F.), good very fine or better (7) Estimate £ 1,400-1,600D.F.C. London Gazette 2.10.1945, The Recommendation states ´Flight Lieutenant Peet has completed a tour of operational duty, including bomber escort duties, armed reconnaissances, and missions in close support of the army. His targets have included enemy troop concentrations, railway sidings, observation posts, and gun positions. In the course of these missions this Officer has destroyed at least one enemy aircraft and has also destroyed or damaged many road vehicles. Flight Lieutenant Peet has, at all times, displayed great courage and fine leadership.´. Flying Officer Wallace Wentworth Peet, D.F.C., born Dannevirke, New Zealand, 24.7.1920; enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force 8.2.1941. Qualified as a Spitfire Pilot, and served with No. 122 Squadron. He completed 67 sorties over the Channel, including participating in the Dieppe raid operations. Following a ´Rest´ tour as an instructor transferred to No. 74 Squadron as a Flight Commander, and completed another 70 operational sorties. No. 74 Squadron, having served in the Mediterranean, re-equipped with Spitefire IXs back in the U.K., and went operational in May 1944. Subsequently engaged over the Normandy beachhead, the Squadron transferred to 2nd Tactical Air Force in July, and began operations as a "Spit-bomber" unit. In August, now based in France, Flight Lieutenant Peet was was involved with both ground attacks and bomber escort duties up until the German surrender. After the War Peet transferred with a reduced rank to the Royal Air Force 22.10.1946, and was promoted Flying Officer 11.7.1949, subsequently serving in the Malayan campaign.

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