Tag: Aerial reconaissance
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Flight Lieutenant Bertram Rota – a transcript
Bertram’s six-page autograph manuscript begins with a transcription of the article in The London Gazette, 23 January 1948, as mentioned and illustrated in the earlier post: An unusual decoration recently awarded (see London Gazette January 23rd 1948. Page 591) by King Haakon of Norway to fur RAFVR officers “for valuable services to Norway’s cause during…
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Flight Lieutenant Bertram Rota
This is the story of the part my grandfather, (Cyril) Bertram Rota, or CBR as he was known to his bookshop staff (my father, Anthony Bertram Rota was referred to as ABR), played in the Second World War. He died when I was four years old and was rarely around – I do not remember…