Sold with the recipient's original Flying Log Books (2), covering the periods August to November 1941, and July 1942 to January 1946, the former being a record of early training flights; several interesting target photographs and a silk escape map.

Warrant Officer R.H. Burt commenced his operational career as a Navigator and Bomb Aimer in Mitchells of No. 98 Squadron, being wounded in the right arm when his aircraft was hit - and seriously damaged - by flak on his very first mission, against enemy gun positions at Dieppe on 29.5.1944. Returning to the operational scene with his old Squadron in February 1945, at an airfield in Melsbroek, Belgium, Burt went on to complete an action-packed tour of 50 sorties, the vast majority being strikes against enemy lines of communication, marshalling yards and transport. Remarkably, for a man who had returned to operations after being wounded, and completed so many sorties, there was to be no official recognition, his final flight being logged in a Mosquito of 138 Wing over Holland in January 1946.