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Pilot's wartime love letters sold

Letters sent by a Battle of Britain fighter pilot to his sweetheart in Norfolk have sold at auction for £2,100.

Sgt Eric Arthur Redfern wrote to Joan Preston, who would later become his wife, while serving in the RAF under the command of Douglas Bader.

The collection also included a letter informing her of his death in action in 1942, a few months after their wedding.

Photographs and medals were also sold at Ely in Cambridgeshire.
Read entire article at BBC