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Lot 62
REMARKABLE ARCHIVE OF THE CAREER OF FLIGHT SERGEANT LESLIE JOSEPH OXFORD 560668 R.A.F. DOCUMENTING WITH MEDALS INCLUDING LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT - PHOTOGRAPHS AND PAPERWORK COVERING HIS WHOLE CAREER FROM 1926 TO 1955. This remarkable collection is being sold as one lot at the request of the family. Photographs and paperwork his entire career from 1926 to 1955. He was initially trained as a Rigger/Carpenter and later as an airframe fitter specialising in engine fitting also. Through this trade he served as both Ground and Air Crew on many important aircraft including the R101 Airship, Dakota, Bristols, Hawker, Gypsy Moth, and Vickers. As a fitter he was involved in the recovery and investigation of many crashed and downed aircraft including the K.L.M. Airline crash in Iraq in 1934 and recovery of all the bodies. Before this he recorded Amy & Jim Mollison in the K.L.M. aircraft during the England to Australia Air Race 1935. All of these important events and aircraft he photographed and recorded. Fl Sgt Oxford was first posted to Grantham where he Boxed and played Hockey for his squadron in No.3 F/T school. Then he was posted to Cardington where he was involved with the R100 & R101 Airships of which there are numerous original photographs showing the R101 in flight in Cardington, the ‘Tail of the R100 taken from carriage whilst crossing the Atlantic’, The R101 moored in Ottawa, The State Room, Galleys and Crews Mess on the R101. And, most poignantly, a photograph taken of the R101 being pulled out of its shed before what was to be her ill-fated final flight. This final flight ended in disaster at Beauvais where all but 7 of the 55 passengers and crew were killed. He also served on HMS Furious, the Torpedo Carrier and HMS Glorious as, possibly, aircraft recognition. He worked on Sunderland Flying Boats in 1939 at 201 Sq. Lerwick. From there he went to RAF Hullavington with No.9 F/T School for Hurricane Fighters, also Leicester, Andover, Egypt, Colerne and once again Iraq. This archive also includes Fl Sgt Oxford’s Cigarette Cases, one with enamel R.A.F. wings, the other engraved by hand with ’55 Squadron emblems and a scene from Iraq, His service medals including the Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, Discharge Documents, Service Cards, Foreign Currency notes, Postcards, RAF Meteor Newspaper, Parachuting photos & prints, Troopship Dinner Menus, a ‘Gentleman’s Pass’ to the Baghdad Races, A request to attend Baghdad Court after witnessing a knife attack. (Fl Sgt Oxford and colleagues were attacked by a mob whilst leaving this court case). Plus many other fascinating items and ephemera collected during almost 30 yrs of distinguished service. INVENTORY OF ITEMS:- Royal Air Force Official Service Records Two Photograph Albums RAF Halton ID Card ‘Permission to Smoke’ Parachuting and ‘RAF Halton’ Photos & Prints RAF Old Boys Association Membership Card & Receipt RAF Grantham Plain Clothes Pass 1930 Troopship dinner menu October 1934 ‘Introduction to Iraq’ Book 1935 Baghdad Races ‘Gentleman’s Pass’ Various cinema tickets, Imperial Airways drinks bills & Grand Lottery tickets in Iraq 55 Squadron Xmas 1936 Dinner Menu 70 Squadron 15 February 1936 Dinner menu Purchase Reciepts for Jashanmal – Bahrain Iraqi request to attend Baghdad Court 25 November 1936 55 Squadron Dinner 14 November 1936 Malta – Various Entertainment, Hotel & Drinks notices I.D. Card for H.M.S. Glorious Programme of Dances for 1st Submarine Flotilla Sliema 15 January 1938 Hal Far Xmas Dinner 1937 Menu ‘DEUTSCHELAND EINE MARK’ Currency Note Sullom Voe Xmas 1940 Sgts. Mess Dinner Sullom Voe Farewell Dinner ‘Humorous Dinner’ Permanent Pass RAF Hullavington 1942 XMAS 1946 – Sgts Mess RAF Kasfareet The ‘Meteor’ RAF Newspaper 18th December 1947 RAF Kasfareet 9 Postcards Baghdad and Mosques 1 Postcard Nairn Transport (used to pass the Main gate at RAF Habbaniya on the way to Damascus) 1 Postcard Babylon Flying Wing Sergeants Mess RAF Habbaniya Coronation Dinner 2 June 1953 Programme – Coronation Wk RAF Habbaniya Certificate of Service Booklet Notebook 1940’s Engineering Medal Advice dated 4th March 1940 Photocopies Parts 1 & 2 Air Pictorial relating to Sunderland Flying Boat VML 824 Two RAF Boxing Medals Various Brass Service Buttons and Flight Sergeants ‘Crowns’ Silver Plate Cigarette Case Depiting Iraqi Scene and 55 Squadron Hinaidi Cigarette Case with RAF Wings Emblem
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