For sale is a General Service Medal (G.VI.R.) with two clasps PALESTINE, PALESTINE 1945 – 48, impressed named 513850 CPL W.H. AKENHURST. R.A.F.; 1939 – 45 Star, Burma Star, Defence and War Medals (1939 – 45) all unnamed as issued.; royal Air Force Long Service Medal (G.VI. R.) impressed named FLT. LT. W.H. AKENHURST. R.A.F. Court mounted for display they come with copies of London Gazettes.

Flight Lieutenant William Henry Akehurst was born on 29/11/1909 in Aston, Warwickshire, England. It is believed that he enlisted into the Royal Air Force in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s with the service # 513850.

He qualified for the GSM with clasp Palestine (1936 – 39) by which time he was a Corporal, further, the 1939 census records him as a RAF Corporal stationed at Kesteven, Lincolnshire.

He was commissioned into the Technical Branch of the RAF as a Pilot Officer 30/12/1943. He was still serving as late as 1951.

He died in 1973 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. 


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