D.F.C. London Gazette 28.3.1944. Recommendation states 'Flying Officer Deeks has completed two tours of operational duty. During the first when based at Malta, he took part in many difficult and hazardous operations, attacking enemy road transport, shipping and harbours. On his second tour as Leading Navigator and Bomb Aimer, he played no small part in the successful completion of numerous missions. At all times this Officer's courage, keenness and devotion to duty have been most praiseworthy'.

Flight Lieutenant Frederick John Deeks, D.F.C., was born in Plumstead in 1922 and educated at Battersea Grammar School. Enlisting for aircrew duties in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940, Deeks was commissioned in 1942 and gazetted for his D.F.C. while serving in No. 107 Squadron in March 1944. Post-War handwritten extracts which appear to have been taken from his Flying Log Book, which accompany the Lot, describe some of his earlier sorties while operating out of Luqa, Malta in the Squadron's Blenheims, not least a series of low-level Anti-Shipping Strikes from his first tour of operations in late 1941 early 1942. Undoubtedly Deeks' second tour with No. 107 would have comprised no less hair-raising experiences in Mosquitoes over Occupied Europe.