Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant P. M. George, Royal Air Force, late Royal Fusiliers and Cheshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (Lieutenant, Cheshire Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, the first impressed in the style of South African issues, generally good very fine (4) £100-120

Philip Montague George, who was born in Manchester in December 1893 and was educated at Manchester Grammar School, enlisted in the Public School Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in September 1914, direct from his employment in a local accountancy firm. Discharged to a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, in November of the same year, he went out to France in June 1915, but was invalided home in April 1916, the relevant medical report stating that he was suffering from breathing difficulties following service in the Givenchy sector. Of his employment between then and May 1918 little is known, but by the latter month he was serving as a Temporary Captain (A. & S.) in the newly formed Royal Air Force. However, George actually appears to have been employed as a Technical Officer, and ended the War with an appointment at the Armament School, Uxbridge, from which establishment he was discharged in April 1919. He subsequently settled in South Africa, where he became President of the Natal Society of Accountants.