Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant Pilot D. S. Robertson, Royal Canadian Air Force, who was killed in a flying accident in England in January 1944

Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Sgt. Pilot D. S. Robertson, R 179340’, in its case of issue, extremely fine (4) £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Donald Stuart Robertson was born in Montreal on 24 February 1923. A Telephone Installer by trade, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in August 1942.

Selected for pilot training, he was awarded his Pilot’s Badge in September 1943, and was embarked for England in the following month. Posted to No. 11 A.F.U., he was killed in a flying accident in an Oxford aircraft at Church Stratton on 1 January 1944. The son of James and Annie Robertson of Outremont, Quebec, and 20 years of age, he was buried in Blacon Cemetery, Chester; sold with original letter from R.C.A.F. Casualties Branch, Ottawa, reporting the recipient’s death to next of kin, together with copied service papers.