Autographs of Les Munro
Squadron Leader John Leslie Munro, CNZM, DSO, QSO, DFC, JP (5 April 1919 – 4 August 2015) was a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot during World War II and the last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943.
Born on 5 April 1919 near Gisborne on New Zealand's East Coast, Munro lived there until he enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force on 5 July 1941. He was originally turned down because of unsatisfactory scholastic ability, but studied by correspondence and was finally accepted.
His father was from the woollen mills of Glasgow; at the turn of the century he contracted T.B. and emigrated to New Zealand. He was employed as a shepherd on the isolated Marshlands sheep station (farm) which was 5 miles from the nearest settlement and school and 16 miles from Gisborne. Money was scarce, so Les gave up high school; working on a dairy farm and then a mixed sheep and cropping farm. He had a younger sister and brother; Ian joined the Army in 1940. But Les wanted to be a pilot not aircrew, so he took a correspondence course in mathematics to qualify. He was accepted for the Empire Air Training Scheme and left for advanced training in Canada in October 1941. Being conservative he chose to be a bomber pilot though being a fighter pilot was more popular.
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Current items with a signature of Les Munro
These are the most current items with a signature of Les Munro that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 35th Anniv of VE Day Signed by Les Munro Dambuster pilot with 617 Sqn. | £17.95 |  |
 | Dams Raid Pilot LES MUNRO DSO DFC Signed DAMBUSTERS 50th Ann Cover | £25.94 | |
Traded items with a signature of Les Munro
The most expensive item with a signature of Les Munro (WW2 RAF 617 Squadron Dambusters Raid veteran Les Munro signed letter) was sold in August 2025 for £184.50 while the cheapest item (DAMBUSTERS LES MUNRO SIGNATURE) found a new owner for £1.00 in August 2018. The month with the most items sold (17) was September 2018 with an average selling price of £8.50 for an autographed item of Les Munro. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2017 with £33.80 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £4.00 was April 2019. In average, an autographed item from Les Munro is worth £14.95.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Les Munro were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
Latest News about Les Munro
Dambusters pilot Les Munro to auction war medals to pay for Bomber Command memor (10/03/2015): A wave of tributes to Les Munro, 95, has swept social media and the RAF Benevolent Fund, which is responsible for the £50,000-a-year upkeep of the memorial in London’s Green Park. 
