Thanks Ross for confirming that he was with the PRU at St Eval when he received his DFC.

A few units did use the Star of David, 1 ANS, 615 Sqn and I seem to remember seeing one more yesterday but the inner design was different in every case.

It does look a bit like that Mike, though the two diagonal lines heading towards the bottom of the star don’t look like they belong with the moth. If it is I’d have never gone for DH.

A bit of history on the officer in the photo, he was a Canadian citizen who joined the RAF in 1936, already holding a Canadian PPL (or equivalent at the time), and for at least the early part of 1941 was at St Eval. He was killed in a crash in July 1941 but the CWGC graves registration record has his unit at the time of his death as No.31 ANS, which was in Canada and he is not referred to at all in their ORB (I looked last week). I think there may have been some paper exercise as he’d gone on leave to Canada shortly before his death and was then ferrying an aircraft back. He was awarded the DFC in April 1941 but not citation is given in the LG and no unit either but this photo has me thinking as he is buried at St Eval and had been stationed there he was possibly with No.2 PRU but that logo is nothing like the badge for that unit.

I think it will be a case of taking a look at HO 193/66, hopefully it will be what we’re after.

Thanks avion ancien for bringing the thread back onto topic. I should have known better than to start a ‘light blue touch paper and retire to safe distance’ thread.