WW2 RAF Hurricane Pilot KIA photographs, documents, telegrams over 100 documents For Sale

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WW2 RAF Hurricane Pilot KIA photographs, documents, telegrams over 100 documents:
$238.49

WW2 RAF Hurricane Pilot KIA Malta 7th May 1941 the sale lot contains original photographs, documents, telegrams over 100 documents all items relating to RAF Hurricane Pilot Sgt Harry Horace Jennings 754910 who saw service with No.605 Squadron for a short time before joining No.261 Squadron based in Malta, where he was killed in Action on the 7th May 1941.

A very complete file of this young pilots life in the RAF and an incredibly moving and poignant record of his wartime service.

The collection is very large and comprehensive and I’ve only been able to show a small number of pages in the listing.

2 x photographs postcard size, Jennings in uniform and flying kit.Original Certified copy of Attestation3 x modern colour photograph of the cemetery and headstone in Malta provided by The War Graves Photographic Project.numerous letters / telegrams, air ministry etc, with regards to his application to join the RAFVR - 1939.Numerous letters from Jennings to his parents from various RAF Stations / Squadron detailing his progress and well being up to him arriving in Malta - 1940 / 1941.

A RAF Airman\'s Record of kit issued. 1940

A Telegram Regret To inform you your son has been killed.

RAF letter confirming the death whilst engaged on air operations.

numerous letters of condolence from friends and family to his parents.

Numerous letters from the Air Ministry / RAF concerning his loss.

and finally numerous assorted letters concerning his personal affairs.

Sgt Jennings is entitled to the 1939/45 Star, Africa Star and War Medal

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Titles of Distinction

• Hero of the Soviet Union
• Hero of Socialist Labor
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of USSR
• Dist. Military Pilot USSR
• Dist. Military Navigator USSR
• Dist. Test Pilot USSR
• Dist. Test Navigator USSR
• Distinguished Pilot USSR
• Dist. Navigator USSR

Orders of Distinction

• Order of Lenin
• Order of October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of Suvorov
• Order of Ushakov
• Order of Kutuzov
• Order of Nakhimov
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
• Order of Alexander Nevsky
• Order of the Patriotic War
• Order of Red Banner of Labor
• Order of Friendship
• Order of the Red Star
• Order Service to Motherland
• Order of the Badge of Honor
• Order of Honor
• Order of Personal Courage
• Order of Glory
• Order of Labor Glory
• Order of Mother Heroine
• Order of Maternal Glory