Militaria
Lot 1621 SESSION 6 (9.30AM TUESDAY 31ST AUGUST) Militaria
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $60
CANADA, No.4 B.G.S. (Bombing and Gunnery School), Pickle Barrel Trophy membership badge in silver (13.5mm), by Birks-Ellis (Canadian jewellers), pin-back. Extremely fine and very scarce.
No.4 B.G.S. was located at RCAF Station, Fingal, Ontario, Canada. It trained air crew from various Commonwealth countries under the Empire Air Training Scheme. To encourage bombing accuracy there was an incentive to qualify to become a member of the exclusive 'Port Barrel Club'. The club's trophy related to the Nordern's bombsight claim that it could 'drop a bomb in a pickle barrel from 18,000 feet'.
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