Medal Bar of Wing Commander Alan Geoffrey Page, DSO, DFC and Bar

Geoffrey Page was badly burned when he was shot down while attacking a German bomber formation over the English Channel on 12 August 1940 during the Battle of Britain.

He became one of the patients, known as ‘Guinea Pigs’, of Dr Archibald McIndoe, who used pioneering reconstruction surgery on injured aircrew. Page eventually underwent 40 operations. He returned to flying in 1942, destroying several German aircraft, before becoming a spokesman for the 649 members of the morale-boosting and fund-raising Guinea Pig Club. Medals, from left to right: Distinguished Service Order, Officer of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, 1939–1945 Star with Battle of Britain clasp, Air Crew Europe Star with France and Germany clasp, Africa Star, Defence Medal, 1939–1945 War Medal, Order of Orange-Nassau (4th Class).