Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

the original R.A.F. flying log books appertaining to Flight Lieutenant H. G. Perry, who won a “Green Endorsement” for averting a disaster while flying with the Cambridge University Air Squadron in 1955, comprising Pilot’s Flying Log Books (Form 414 types) (3), privately bound in dark blue leather as one volume, covering the total period December 1941 to January 1953, together with similar Form 414 books covering the periods May 1950 to January 1953, and February 1953 to September 1955, these latter as an R.A.F.V.R. pilot and instructor in the Cambridge University Air Squadron, together with his U.K. Ministry of Civil Aviation Private Pilot’s (December 1949) and Commercial Pilot’s (December 1951) Licences, and Certificate of Competency and Licence to Fly Private Flying Machines (December 1947), and his Federation Aeronautique Internationale (Great Britain) Competitor’s Licence (December 1949), his wartime R.A.F. tunic, with Flight Lieutenant’s rank insignia and ‘Wings’, and related cap, generally in good condition (Lot) £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, An Old Collection of Medals Relating to The Great War.

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Henry George Perry was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, in July 1921, and entered the Royal Air Force in July 1941. Graduating as a pilot out in Canada, he returned to the U.K. in the summer of 1942 and served at assorted Advanced Flying Units and Flying Instructor Schools for the remainder of the War, himself being rated as ‘exceptional’. He was awarded a ‘Green Endorsement’ in his log book on 23 August 1955, after taking back the controls of his pupil pilot on a heavy landing, thereby averting a potentially fatal accident. His final flight with the Cambridge University Air Squadron was flown on 2 September of the same year.