Pair: Squadron Leader E. S. Dodds, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (T.), late Royal Air Force, who flew Canberras in the Malay Peninsula operations of 1964-66

General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Sqd. Ldr. E. S. Dodds, R.A.F.); Cadet Forces Long Service, E.II.R., with Second Award Bar (Flt. Lt. E. S. Dodds, R.A.F.V.R. (T.)), nearly extremely fine (2) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C., R.N.A.S. and R.A.F..

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Eric Dodds, who was born in May 1933, was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force in February 1952 and, having gained advancement to Squadron Leader in June 1963, flew operationally in Canberras in the Malay Peninsula operations of 1964-66. Placed on the Retired List in June 1971, he transferred to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training) in the same month, serving variously at Air Experience Flights at R.A.F. Church Fenton and R.A.F. Leeming, and gaining his Cadet Forces L.S. Medal in June 1983 and a Bar in June 1991. Sadly, the Squadron Leader died a few months later; sold with copied magazine feature, including a portrait photograph.