Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Flight Sergeant R. G. Love, Royal Air Force

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (363998 A.C.1, R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (363998 F/Sgt., R.A.F.), mounted as worn, very fine (lot) £380-420

R. G. Love, an amateur boxer of some repute in the R.A.F., was the winner of a quantity of medals, cups, trophies and plaques:

Medals (14), including, R.A.F. Medallion, 44mm., bronze, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys Wing Cranwell, Feather Weight Champion 1924’; R.A.F. Medallion, 38mm., silver, rev. inscribed, ‘Boys’ Wing Cranwell Boxing Championships Featherweight winner A/A. R. G. Love; The Wakefield R.A.F. Boxing Trophy Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1926-27 Bantam Weight Winner R. G. Love’, 9ct. gold, 24.18g., hallmarks for Birmingham 1926; Prize Medal, eight-pointed silver star with gold centre inscribed, ‘Mussourie Boxing Tournament 1931; other medals and medallions, silver (4); bronze (6), most named or otherwise inscribed.

Cups and Trophies (13), including, Silver Cup, approx. 181mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Boxing Association, Fly Weight Championship 1927, Winner A/C. R. G. Love, Presented by Air Vice Marshal Sir John F. A. Higgins, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C.’; Silver Cup, approx. 153mm. high, no hallmarks, inscribed, ‘Boxing Cranwell v Halton (Aircraft Apprentices) Mar. 1926, Winner, Bantam Weight, R. G. Love’; Silver Tankard, approx. 117mm. high, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1928-29 R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 140mm. high, hallmarks for London 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq 1929-30, Bantam Weight Winner, R. G. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 165mm. high, hallmarks for London 1933, inscribed, ‘R.A.F.B.A. Individual Championships 1933-1934, Bantam-Weight Winner, L.A.C. R. Love’; Silver Cup, approx. 100mm. high, hallmarks for London 1930, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Uxbridge 1934 Contest Winner’; Silver Cup, approx. 164mm. high, hallmarks for Birmingham 1939, inscribed, ‘Boxing Bedfs. & Herts Depot v R.A.F. Cardington 1939 Fly Wt. Winner’; Pewter Tankard, with glass bottom, approx. 133mm. high, inscribed, ‘Signals Stadium L.A.C. Love’; Silvered Metal Cup, approx. 170mm. high, inscribed, ‘Amateur Boxing, R.A.F. v Ulster, 1935’, but with broken stem; other small cups (4) - three silver, one silvered metal, all inscribed. Ten of the trophies with wooden plinths.

Plaques (4), Silver Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for Birmingham 1928, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Iraq Individual Bantam-Weight Champion 1929-30, W. G. Love’ (sic); another, hallmarks for London, inscribed, ‘Aldershot Command v Royal Air Force, November 1934 L.A.C. Love’; Silver and Gold Plaque on a wooden base, hallmarks for London 1926, inscribed, ‘I.S.B.A. Boxing 1927, Amateur Championship Other Ranks Fly Weight Winner, A.C. R. G. Love’; Bronze Plaque on wooden base, inscribed, ‘R.A.F. Inter-Command Boxing Tournament 1930, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Runners Up, R. G. Love’.

For his father’s medals, see Lot 814.