Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain C. E. Turner, Royal Air Force, late 11th Worcestershire Regiment

1914-15 Star (Lieut. C. E. Turner, Worc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. C. E. Turner, R.A.F.); French Croix de Guerre 1914 1916, with bronze palm, mounted as worn, together with another Great War pair, believed to be related in some manner (282949 3.A.M. W. J. Driver, R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (6) £200-250

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 1 May 1917.

Charles Ernest Turner was born on 24 June 1895, and educated at Emanuel School. He was appointed temporary Second Lieutenant, Worcestershire Regiment, on 9 December 1914, becoming temporary Lieutenant in August 1915, and temporary Captain in August 1917. He received a gunshot wound in the right arm at Doiran, Salonika, on 11 November 1916, and was invalided to England in February 1917 aboard the hospital ship Panama. He resigned his commission on appointment to the Royal Air Force on 31 July 1918. Sold with 10 copied pages from his National Archives Correspondence File. The vendor states that the pair to Driver was acquired in the same box as the group to Turner from an antique dealer many years ago who stated that they were in some manner connected or related to one another.