Air Efficiency Medal
Thanks for the heads up on this guys. Never realised it was for services rendered I always thought Cookies gong was for a rather spendid bit of airmanship. ie saving half a squadron's worth of Hampdens (149 Scampers 1940) He was the only signaller to clock that the forecast winds were way way out and had to nag the skipper into agreement. (DF minimums) Others less on the ball were swept into the Atlantic by the gale force southerlies and never seen again. His crew flew from Holland to Scampton via Newcastle! That to me is air efficiency. Strange are the ways of the official mind. A good show like that goes unrecognised but his 12 years as OC an ATC squadron earns 2 gongs! (The DFC made up for it)