WW2 AIR CREW EUROPE CASUALTY GROUP, WITH BOMBER COMMAND CLASP, P.O.W ESCAPER NO-10 SQUADRON, DIED 1944

Mint boxed 1939-45 Star, Bomber Command Clasp, Air Crew Europe Star, 1939-45 War Medal
To- WO.H.J.DAVIS.580766.R.A.F
ON the night of the 20th / 21st of July 1940 John Henry Davis was an observer with no-10 Squadron flying out of RAF Leeming in Yorkshire. The recipients crew were tasked with an operational night flight to bomb the aircraft factory at Wenzendorf with Whitley N1497. The recipient was captured at this point but managed to escape from captivity in September of 1943 & met up with UK forces in Italy. He sadly died in the UK 28-10-1944 & was cremated at Canley crematorium, Coventry. He is recorded by the C.W.G.C as the late husband of Barbara Davis of Braddan on the Isle of Man.
The medals are late claim issues that were claimed at the same time as the recipients son claimed his Bomber Command clasp.
EF/MIINT in four boxes of issue. Three of the boxes are named. Whilst the recipients son has removed the label from the box for the 1939-45 Star. The group comes with the modern issue slip & the unnamed forwarding letter for the medals. Complete with C.W.G.C details and other very basic information as is readily available online.
Rare to find a genuine bomber command clasp on the open market.

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