Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain C. J. Temperley, Royal Air Force, late Northern Cyclist Battalion and Royal Flying Corps, who was wounded in a combat in October 1917, while piloting an S.E. 5 of No. 60 Squadron

British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt., N. Cyc. Bn.), contained in an old metalled display frame, together with his privately engraved silver identity disc, the obverse inscribed ‘Capt. C. J. Temperley, N. Cyc. Bn. & R.F.C., 1914-18’, and the reverse ‘Noel M. Temperley, W.R.N.S., 1940 1945’, extremely fine (4) £600-700

Clifford James Temperley, who was born in June 1894 and commissioned as a Territorial Officer in November 1914, qualified for his “Wings” in June 1915 (Certificate No. 1367), and remained employed on the Home Establishment until joining No. 60 Squadron, an S.E. 5 unit operating out of St. Marie Cappel, in October 1917. By then a Temporary Captain, it was intended he take up appointment as a Flight Commander, but in lieu of his lack of experience in scouts in France the Squadron C.O. vetoed the idea. And, as it transpired, Temperley was downed just a few days later, on the 28th, when wounded in the foot in a combat near Vlamertinger and forced to land near Poperinghe. Invalided home, he did not return to duty until April 1918, with an appointment at the Air Ministry, following which he served as a Staff Officer until the end of hostilities. He was placed on the Unemployed List in January 1919.

Sold with the recipient’s Great War photograph album, containing approximately 25 images of fellow pilots, aircraft and “prangs”, together with a fine-quality studio portrait in uniform, in contemporary glazed frame; a Dover Garrison Pass in the name of ‘2nd Lieut. C. J. Temperley’, circa 1915, and additional items appertaining to Noel Temperley, W.R.N.S., including another smaller identity disc, in white gold, and a silver and enamelled compact case, with central applique R.F.C. badge, together with two related photographs, an Admiralty certificate appointing her a Third Officer, dated 21 December 1941, and a souvenir programme for an R.A.F. Benevolent Fund matinee held at the New Opera House Blackpool on 5 October 1941, complete with a pair of admittance tickets.