Lieutenant Richard Lawson Williamson R.N (Fleet Air Arm), D.S.O and Bar:- an Interesting Collection of Photographs and Ephemera, including numerous hand written letters to and from his parents, Engineer Rear Admiral and Mrs Williamson, a portrait photograph of him and another of his father in a silver frame, a number of Admiralty Testimonials relating to him, various newspaper cuttings, a typed record of his service, and a plastic cased survival kit including matches, an escape compass, water purifying tablets, a heliograph etc.

Footnote :- Richard Lawson Williamson attended the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth from 1927 until 1931, joining the Fleet Air Arm in 1936. He took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, where he was mentioned in despatches, and later awarded the D.S.O. for raids on Persamo and Kirkenes. After spending six months in Malta, his service gained him a bar to his D.S.O. He was killed in action over the English Channel in October 1942 along with Navigator Sub Lieutenant Owen Norman, and is remembered on the Lee-on-the-Solent War Memorial.