Hammer

£860

WW2 RAF DFM Winner Casualty Caterpillar Club Gold Badge. A scarce original example with swivel safety catch fitting and engraved to the reverse SGT A L LANGWORTHY. Awarded to Pilot Officer Alfred Leslie Langworthy DFM Flight Engineer who was killed on the 10th January 1944. The caterpillar badge is accompanied by original photographs 2x portrait Sergeant wearing rare FE (Flight Engineer) brevet, Grave with temporary marker. Copy photograph of him and crew. Pilot Officer Alfred Leslie Langworthy DFM was a native of Folkestone and on joining the RAF he volunteered for aircrew qualifying as a Flight Engineer. Posted to 10 Squadron operating the Handley Page Halifax bomber completing a tour of operations he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal London Gazette 15th June 1943. He was commissioned and posted to 1652 HCU as an instructor he was briefed on the 10th January for a duel control flight. Taking off from RAF Marston Moor, within minutes, control was lost and the aircraft crashed into the River Ouse inverted. All the crew were killed.