Interest set of medals on Ebay at present.
FlT Lt Wynford Ormonde Leoni Smith from Worthing in Sussex, was lost on 27 December 1940 while flying a 263 Sqn Whirlwind. He and two other Pilots took off from Exeter for St Eval to act as escort to two Catalina’s. Unfortunately the section got lost due to bad weather, one pilot managed to make it back to Exeter, the other two, including, Smith were lost. These were the second operational losses to be suffered by 263 Sqn.
By: Alex Crawford - 12th March 2006 at 20:59
Hi,
I received an email from a guy a month or so ago asking me if Flt Lt Smith flew with 263 Sqn in Norway. I haven’t kept any of the emails but I think he said he had been offered these medals but declined because of the high price. Could have been on ebay.
I gave him what details I had from 263’s ORB.
Alex
By: brewerjerry - 12th March 2006 at 20:26
interesting
Hi
The price tag ouch !!!!!
And the whirlwind photos aren’t even original period, all three whirlwind photos were taken after smith had crashed .
Interesting the 5 Sq india background history, this might help me finally locate a photo of him, to go with the photo of Vines who crashed at the same time.
of interest never found out which unit the catalinas were from apparently it was a VIP escort, think they were coming from bermuda
Cheers
jerry
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March 12, 2006 at 8:00 pm