A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War

Three: Sergeant H. Powys-Jones, Royal Air Force, who was killed on operations in September 1940

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Hugh Powys-Jones was born in St. Pancras, London in August 1918 and joined the Royal Air Force as an A.C. 2 in August 1939. Posted to No. 5 Air Observer’s School that October, he was briefly attached to No. 101 Squadron in April-May 1940, before joining No. 15 Squadron as a Sergeant Observer in the latter month. And it was in this capacity that he was killed on operations on the night of 4-5 September 1940, when assigned to a raid on St. Omer in Blenheim IV R3769 LS, piloted by Pilot Officer D. E. C. Myland - the aircraft crashed and burst into flames at 0025 hours near Kettering, Northamptonshire. The son of Arthur and Hester Powys-Jones of Blackheath, London, he was 22 years of age, and is buried in Wyton (St. Margaret and All Saints) Churchyard.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including his R.A.F. Certificate of Service and Discharge, two official telegrams and two official letters regarding his death and funeral, and photograph albums (2), the larger example with approximately 95 pre-war and 40 wartime images, the latter including Wyton, fellow aircrew, aircraft and air-to-air photographs, and the smaller album approximately 100 pre-war images, with additional inserts, including an envelope with further images of a family nature.