Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Desert-dash hero’s gongs in £30k sale
MEDALS won by an RAF hero who drove 200 miles behind enemy lines to rescue a bomber crew are for sale at auction with an estimate of £30,000. The Lancaster made a forced landing in 1942 and Group Capt Clive Stanbury loaded a propeller and other spares on a captured German lorry and set off into the Libyan desert. The crew repaired the plane which took off just as enemy soldiers closed in and made it back to the British base at El Alamein. The rescue came to light as the DSO Gp Capt Stanbury won, plus his other medals, are sold at Charterhouse auctions, in Sherborne, Dorset, on June 23. Auctioneer Richard Bromell said: “Rare do you come across such important RAF medal groups.”