WW2 British RAF DFC Medal group. Provenance - Sotheby's 10th...

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£2,800 - £3,000

WW2 British RAF DFC Medal group. Provenance - Sotheby's 10th November 1988, lot 184.

Distinguished Flying Cross '1945'
1939 to 45 Star
France and Germany Star
Defence Medal
War Medal

Condition GVF (Some scratching to the bottom arm of the DFC.)

Pilots Wings
RAF Apprenticeship Medal Cross Country Championship 1937-38 Runners Ups Medal.

All housed in a bespoke frame.

Included in the sale is an original Case for DFC; a Commemorative Bomber Command Medal, with certificate number 3188; a Set of RAF cuff links; a Mini DFC, Defence and War Medal

Cased - Harrington Kennett Trophy - Royal Air Force Halton, Junior Cross Country and Athletics Medal, Hallmarked Silver and engraved A/A. Twite C.E.; Cased Royal Airforce Athletics & Cross Country Association Medal in E Phillips Medallist Aldershot Case; Engraved to the reverse - Cross Country Championship Division III 1939 Winners.


Sold two log books covering his training and operational sorties.

Charles Edward Twite was born in June 1921.

While serving as a Corporal in the Royal Airforce, he was granted an emergency commission as a Pilot Officer on 24th November 1942.

Twite, after flight training, spent a period as an Instructor. In June 1944, he was posted to the '12' Operational training unit in preparation for combat sorties. In November 1944, he was posted to 195 Squadron, which Operated Lancaster Bombers, for an operational tour. In April 1945, he completed his tour, having flown 37 sorites, mainly in Lancaster HK-701. By this time, he had flown a total of 1589 hours and 28 minutes in his RAF career.

Many of his sorties were to Germany, with raids to Dortmund, Wiesbaden and Munchen amongst the targets.

On 21st September 1945, his DFC was announced in the London Gazette; it was an end-of-tour award.

In the post-war years he married in 1947 and passed away in 1986.

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Medal GVF, some scratching to lower arm of DFC.