HMS Glory - Aircraft Carrier/Japanese Surrender Grouping.

A medal, insignia , ephemera and photographic grouping to D/MX 726397 P/O. Maurice D Edwards who was serving on board the aircraft carrier HMS Glory.
HMS Glory (R62) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy laid down on 27 August 1942 by Harland and Wolff at Belfast. She was launched on 27 November 1943, commissioned on 2 April 1945, and left for the Pacific with an air wing of Barracudas (837 Naval Air Squadron) and Corsairs (1831 Naval Air Squadron). At Sydney, she joined the 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron of the British Pacific Fleet as the war was ending. Glory came to Rabaul shortly thereafter on 6 September 1945 to accept the surrender of the Japanese garrison there.
Group consists of Edward's medals, 39-45, Pacific Stars and War Medal in original box, various items of RN insignia, ration cards, passes, orders etc, personal photographs and a number of 10 x 8 photographs showing the Japanese surrender at Rabaul. These are accompanied by smaller but differing views of the surrender. There is also an official photographic copy of the ' Instrument of Surrender ' and some Japanese money collected on a trip to Hiroshima . Interesting grouping to the forgotten war.

Code: 7269