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A WWII Campaign Group of 6 awarded to Flight Lieutenant George Stephenson, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late RFC, mentioned in despatches for distinguished service in 1945, with a quantity of documentation and photograph album relating to his son, Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) George Forster Constable Stephenson, killed in action over Germany on the 15th of March 1945 whilst serving with 227 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, comprising: 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Africa Star with ‘North Africa 1942-43 Clasp’, Burma Star, Defence & War Medals, 1939-1945, with MID bronze oak leaf, medals unnamed as issued, group loose, in original OHMS box of issue. Toned, as struck. (6) MID London Gazette 14.06.1945 George Stephenson, was born on the 7th of July, 1895, and having been living in New York at the outbreak of WWI, he travelled by train to Canada to train as a Canadian Cadet. He served for 4 years as Sergeant Pilot before he was granted a commission during WWI as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, on the 19th of December 1917. He served until the end of WWI, and earned medal entitlement for WWI (these missing). He was later recalled at the outbreak of hostilities in WWII to assist initially with recruitment in Britain, but was soon after employed with Fighter Control at the Air Headquarters in Iraq during 1942, Fighter Control with 1st, 22nd and 24th Special Operations Rooms in the Middle East. He died on the 25th of March, 1988. Sold with a large amount of interesting ephemera and documentation to both father and son. Relating to the above recipient F/Lt G Stephenson, original portrait photographs, original MID certificate, RAF service & release book, WWII commission scroll, London Gazette mentions, correspondence, and relating to his son, F/Sgt G F C Stephenson, original casualty certificate, photograph album, group photos, and framed portrait photograph and painted portrait,