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25 March 2015

Hammer Price:
£160

A military M.B.E. pair awarded to Captain A. E. Siddons-Wilson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt., R.A.F.) mounted for display, good very fine (2) £160-200

Ex D.N.W. 25 March 1997.

M.B.E.
London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Albert Edgar Siddons-Wilson was appointed Sub-Lieutenant (Engine duties) R.N.V.R. in May 1916, and Lieutenant in April 1917. He was attached to the Royal Naval Air Service and served at the Yarmouth seaplane base as a specialist engineer officer responsible for the servicing and repair of aircraft engines. He became Lieutenant (temp Captain) in the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918. With copied research.