£335,000 for VC pilot's medals
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12 April 2012
Six medals awarded to a Second World War pilot, including a Victoria Cross, sold for a record £335,100 today.
Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid, from Glasgow, was wounded in a raid but then flew a further 200 miles to bomb a target in Nazi Germany.
He then turned his crippled plane round and headed home, flying through heavy flak, and landed in Britain in November 1943.
The medals and an archive of wartime material was bought by an anoymous buyer at Spink auction house in Holborn for well over the £220,000 estimate, setting a British auction record for an RAF VC.
