15th Jun, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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Field Marshall Montgomery's D-Day Bluff - An Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, to 53266 Flight Officer Donald Rawnsley RAF, with numerous entries from 10.6.42 to 31.8.45, including one for 26.5.44 from Northalt to Gibralter, which records Lieutenant Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps as a passenger. James, who was Montgomery's double, was sent to deceive Hitler's High Command. Fascist agents by way of Spain transmitted the news to Berlin that Montgomery was away from his invasion base, thus confusing the Germans who were taken by complete surprise by the D-Day invasion. The log book is accompanied by a book - 'I Was Monty's Double' by M.E.Clifton James, with a dedication and signed by the author, a hand written letter by the same, and a related newspaper cutting.
Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250
Between 1942 and 1945, this officer served with 202 Squadron, 511 Squadron and 246 Squadron, flying in Defiant, Sunderland, Catalina, Liberator III, York and C87 aircraft.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 15th Jun, 2022
Highlights to include an extensive collection of police helmet plates, badges, belts, handcuffs, and helmets from the Victorian era and the first half of the 20th century, and an interesting collection of powder horns and flasks. The Ethnographica section includes is a Collection of Inuit Art comprising knives, weapons, utensils and decorative objects
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