Lot Archive

Lot

№ 258

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7 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£130

Six: Flight Lieutenant L. E. Bartlett, Royal Air Force

India General Service 1936-39
, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (511993 Cpl., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Act. Flt. Lt., R.A.F.), generally good very fine (6) £100-120

Lawrence Edgar Bartlett was employed at H.Q., 1 (Indian) Wing in the North West Frontier operations of 1936-37 and would appear to have seen service in Burma during the 1939-45 War as a Warrant Officer. In August 1945 he was granted an emergency commission as a Pilot Officer and thereafter held a succession of appointments in the Accountancy and Secretarial Branches of the R.A.F., finally retiring in the rank of Flight Lieutenant in January 1958.