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| PERSONALIA |
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| Name: |
Whitfield, Gordon (Service number: 745010/126158, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves) |
| Date of birth: | Unknown
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British |
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BIOGRAPHY:
Promotions:
?: Temporary Warrant Officer;
June 22nd, 1942: Pilot Officer on probation (emergency);
December 22nd, 1942: Flying Officer on probation (war
subs.);
June 22nd, 1944: Flight Lieutenant (war subs.).
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VLIEGERKRUIS (VK)
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Rank:
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Acting Flight Lieutenant
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Awarded on:
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July 31st, 1945
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Awarded for:
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Operation Market Garden
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Details:
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420th Award.
Royal Decree No.29, dated July 31st, 1945.
Permission to wear the decoration granted on January 1st, 1945.
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| Information source(s): |
- MEIJER, H.G. & VIS, R., Het Vliegerkruis, De Bataafsche Leeuw, Amsterdam, 1997.
- Third Supplement to The London Gazette of 3rd July 1942, Issue 35621, dated 7th July 1942
- Second Supplement to The London Gazette of 7th August 1942, Issue 35661, dated 11th August 1942
- Third Supplement to The London Gazette of 26th January 1943, Issue 35881, dated 29th January 1943
- Third Supplement to The London Gazette of 18th July 1944, Issue 36617, dated 21st July 1944
- Ninth Supplement to The London Gazette of 28th December 1945, Issue 37415, dated 1st January 1946
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