Roald Dahl's war medals delivered to family, 73 years late

Twenty-eight years after his death, the author’s decorations, earned as an airman during the second world war, have been received by his widow Felicity

Twenty-eight years after he died, the medals Roald Dahl earned for his time as an RAF fighter pilot during the second world war have finally arrived with his family.

Dahl’s grandson, Ned Donovan, said that the medals had been delivered from the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, and that he had given them to the author’s widow, Felicity Dahl, at her 80th birthday party. The medals – the 1939-1945 Star, for those who served overseas during the war, the Africa Star, the Defence Medal, for non-operational service, and the War Medal – arrived, 73 years late.

73 years late and 28 years after his death, my grandfather Roald’s World War II medals arrived in the post yesterday from the MoD. He never collected them at the time thanks to a bureaucratic mix-up. And so last night I gave them to my step-grandmother as a surprise. pic.twitter.com/nkyq9nZwz5

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