1. Home
2. Support Us
3. Artefacts
4. Caterpillar Club Pin Badge

Caterpillar Club Pin Badge

Object details

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 The caterpillar represents the silk thread from which parachutes were originally made.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.