Eight: Warrant Officer A. F. Fowles, Royal Air Force, late Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M. 9385 Ar. Cr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 9385 Ar. Mte., R.N.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (W./O., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (341238 F./Sgt., R.A.F.); French Croix du Combattant, mounted as worn, generally very fine or better (8) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Albert Frederick Fowles, who was born in London in April 1896, volunteered for the Royal Navy in September 1914, and witnessed active service aboard H.M.S. Hibernia from June 1915 to October 1917, including a tour in the Dardanelles, and aboard the battleship Agamemnon from November 1917 until the end of the War. Demobilised in August 1919, he joined the Royal Air Force in in August 1922, but thereafter details of his career remain unknown, as indeed do the reasons behind the award of his unverified French Croix du Combattant. More certain is the fact he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1934 and was advanced to Warrant Officer in March 1937.