Description
Object description
Photocopies of documents relating to his service as a pilot with RAF Coastal Command flying predominantly Stranraers and then Catalinas, including his postings to No 240 Flying Boat Squadron (February 1940 - September 1941) based at Invergordon, Pembroke Dock and Lough Erne, as Flight Commander in No 259 Flying Boat Squadron (December 1942 - December 1943) in Mombasa, East Africa, and as OC, No 265 Flying Boat Squadron (December 1943 - February 1945) in Diego Suarez, Madagascar, comprising: his log book (113pp, July 1938 - June 1953), including entries for his attack on a U-Boat while escorting a convoy in the Atlantic (4 September 1941), for which he won a bar to his DFC, and his role in the secret mission to rescue General Giraud and deliver him to Gibraltar in time for the Allied landings in North Africa (7 November 1942), for which Louw was eventually awarded the Legion D'Honneur; telegram from Headquarters Coastal Command detailing the award of a Bar to his DFC, with accompanying ts letter (1p) of congratulations (19 and 23 September 1941), Mention in Despatches certificate (8 June 1944), telegram regarding his award of an OBE (31 December 1944), certificate and ms/ts correspondence (12pp, July 1947 - May 1948) relating to his award of the Legion D'Honneur, including his own ts account (1p) of the rescue, newspaper cuttings (2pp) and extracts (2pp) from John A Iverach's 'Chronicles of a Nervous Navigator' relating to Louw's awards, his Officers Record of Service (6pp), and three photographs of him in uniform; together with eight original aerial photographs of Mauritius (undated).
Content description
Photocopies of documents relating to his service as a pilot with RAF Coastal Command flying predominantly Stranraers and then Catalinas, including his postings to No 240 Flying Boat Squadron (February 1940 - September 1941) based at Invergordon, Pembroke Dock and Lough Erne, as Flight Commander in No 259 Flying Boat Squadron (December 1942 - December 1943) in Mombasa, East Africa, and as OC, No 265 Flying Boat Squadron (December 1943 - February 1945) in Diego Suarez, Madagascar, comprising: his log book (113pp, July 1938 - June 1953), including entries for his attack on a U-Boat while escorting a convoy in the Atlantic (4 September 1941), for which he won a bar to his DFC, and his role in the secret mission to rescue General Giraud and deliver him to Gibraltar in time for the Allied landings in North Africa (7 November 1942), for which Louw was eventually awarded the Legion D'Honneur; telegram from Headquarters Coastal Command detailing the award of a Bar to his DFC, with accompanying ts letter (1p) of congratulations (19 and 23 September 1941), Mention in Despatches certificate (8 June 1944), telegram regarding his award of an OBE (31 December 1944), certificate and ms/ts correspondence (12pp, July 1947 - May 1948) relating to his award of the Legion D'Honneur, including his own ts account (1p) of the rescue, newspaper cuttings (2pp) and extracts (2pp) from John A Iverach's 'Chronicles of a Nervous Navigator' relating to Louw's awards, his Officers Record of Service (6pp), and three photographs of him in uniform; together with eight original aerial photographs of Mauritius (undated).
History note
Cataloguer KM
History note
Catalogue date 2005-07-08