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WW2 RAF Bomber Command POW War Medal.
A scarce original privately named example “745334 W O L.R READ RAF”.
Warrant Officer Leslie Ronald Read enrolled into the RAF VR as a Pilot January 1937.
In May 1942 he was serving with 25 OTU, they were briefed for operations in a Wellington Bomber on the night of the 30th and were hit by flak over the target. Read was captured and held in Stalag Luft 1