Auction Catalogue

25 March 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 567

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25 March 1997

Estimate: £300–£350

Three: Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator) G. W. Wheeler, No. 15 (Oxford’s Own) Squadron, Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal, together with named condolence slip, photograph, and his Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book for the period May 1943 to July 1944, detailing 29 operational missions, including 6 June 1944, ‘Ops Ouistreham in support of allied landings’, extremely fine (3)

Sergeant G. W. Wheeler, a Wireless Operator with 15 Squadron (Lancasters) was killed on the night of 24/25 July 1944 during a raid on Stuttgart and is buried in St Desir War Cemetery, France.