Orders, Decorations and Medals

Group Captain Sir Max Aitken, Royal Air Force, D.S.O., D.F.C.
Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Distinguished Service Order; Distinguished Flying Cross; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe, with silver rosette; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. emblem; Czechoslovakia, War Cross 1940; together with a signed photograph of the recipient in uniform

Air Vice Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, Royal Air Force, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.
Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Order of the Bath; Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, military; Distinguished Service Order; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence and War Medals; U.S.S.R. ribbon, mounted on card with a copied photograph of the recipient and two cloth badges

Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick William Bowhill, Royal Air Force, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
Ribbons mounted for display to represent those of the recipient: Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, military; Order of the Bath; Order of St. Michael & St. George; Distinguished Service Order, with silver rosette; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Africa General Service 1902-56; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Foreign ribbon with crossed swords emblem; U.S.A. Legion of Merit, with ‘Commander’ emblem; Netherlands, Order of Orange Nassau, with ‘Grand Cross’ rosette; Norway, Order of St. Olaf, with ‘Grand Cross’ rosette; Poland, Order of Poland Restored, with ‘Grand Cross’ rosette; mounted on card with a copied photograph of the recipient and signature of the recipient on a separate card, good condition (lot) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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Sir (John William) Max Aitken (1910-85), 2nd Baronet, a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain, commanded a night fighter squadron, 1941-42, and was a Group Captain commanding Strike Mosquito Wing, Norgegian Waters, 1943. latterly President of Express Newspapers Ltd.

Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett (1910-86), was the Air Officer Commanding the Pathfinder Force of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, 1939-45. With newspaper obituary.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill (1880-1960), was an officer in the Merchant Navy, 1896-1912 and in the Great War served in the R.F.C. (Naval Wing), R.N.A.S., and R.A.F. During W.W.2 he was Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Coastal Command, 1937-41, and Air Officer Commanding Transport Command, 1943-45.