Another fine warrior's history gone to the highest bidder ... how sad
Having been in the business of buying and selling medals for the last 35 years I'm obviously not going to agree with those sentiments. Whatever the current owners of the assorted chunks of metal illustrated above do with them, nothing detracts from Billy Drake's career in any way whatsoever. They are merely the tangible evidence of his gallantry and his service - if someone chooses to pay a large sum of money for them, then good luck to the family (if indeed they are the sellers). Naturally some people are going to say they should be in a museum. Fair enough, but my feeling is that if a museum wants them, they should compete for them in the open market - not expect them to fall into their laps for nothing.