Description
Description: DFC GVI/ 1939 – 45 Star/ACE Star + France & Germany Bar/Defence Medal/War Medal 1939 – 45/ASM 39-45 & Pathfinders Badge with original certificate.
Condition: GVF
Comments: All medals named 410159 J.Humphrey. Enlisted 14th Sep 1940. Commissioned Jun 1944. Discharged 29th Jun 1946. Embarked from Melbourne for training in Canada, embarked from Canada for service in the UK, where he served the entire war in Europe. Served with 215, 582 & 7 Squadrons.
DFC London Gazette 23rd March 1945. Flight Lieutenant Humphery has completed numerous operations against the enemy, in the course of which he has invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage, and devotion to duty. The DFC was presented to him by the Governor General of Australia at Parliament House, Melbourne 16th Mar 1949.
HQ, Pathfinder Force, RAF, 2nd Aug 1944. To Pilot Officer J.Humphery (Aus.410159). Award of the Pathfinder Force Badge
Completed a total of 52 sorties – 5 as Master Bomber, 2 as Deputy Master Bomber and the rest as Blind and Visual Target Marker.
Sold with research documents from Lieut Col Neil C Smith AM Retd. This research includes details of work (Details of Sortie or Flight) carried in the Operations Record Book, where Humphrey is named with the rest of the crew.
Trove – Group portrait of 1 Initial Training School (ITS), 3 Flight, 1 Squadron of No. 23 Course. Part of AWM War Memorial collection. 410159 J.Humphrey identified in the photograph.
