Scots RAF captain aged 103 awarded for wartime service

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John Cruickshank, who served in World War Two, was given the Air Efficiency Award at his home in Aberdeen.

John Cruickshank, who served his country during the Second World War, was given the Air Efficiency Award at his home in Aberdeen earlier this week Due to an oversight which was discovered last month, Mr Cruickshank did not receive his award at the time.

He was the captain of a Catalina flying boat with 210 Squadron, flying submarine hunting missions from RAF Sulom Voe, Shetland. On July 17 1944 on a patrol north into the Norwegian Sea to protect the British Home Fleet as it returned from an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz, Mr Cruickshank and his crew spotted a German Type U-boat on the surface.

 

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