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

1914-15 Star (M. 9385 A. F. Fowles, Ar. Cr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 9385 A. F. Fowles, Ar. Mte., R.N.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (W./O. A. F. Fowles, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (341238 F./Sgt. A. F. Fowles, R.A.F.); France, Croix du Combattant, mounted as worn, the earlier awards with contact marks and occasional edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine or better (8) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C., R.N.A.S. and R.A.F..

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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 the battleship H.M.S. Hibernia from June 1915 to October 1917, including a tour of duty 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 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.