Caterpillar Club Pin Badge

The Caterpillar Club awards membership to people whose lives have been saved by bailing out of a stricken aircraft using an Irvin parachute. Members are awarded a gold caterpillar pin badge. The caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made. This pin badge belonged to Leonard Clarke, who was a flight engineer on Lancasters with No. 7 Squadron.