Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Captain T. A. Tillard, Norfolk Yeomanry, Flight Commader, Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in a flying accident on 6 December 1916.

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Atkinson Tillard) this last in card envelope, extremely fine (3) £250-300

Thomas Atkinson Tillard was born in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. on 25 February 1884. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining from the latter a B.A. Employed as a Civil Engineer in Hydraulics and Irrigation in the Sudan. Later living in Petersfield, he was commissioned an officer in the Norfolk Yeomanry in October 1914. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was gazetted a Flying Officer in March 1916. Flying Officer Tillard served in France with No. 3 Squadron from April 1916 but was wounded on 6 July 1916 - receiving a gunshot wound to the leg whilst flying. Promoted to Flight Commander on 3 November 1916 and serving with No. 1 Squadron, he was killed in a flying accident on 6 December 1916, aged 32 years - his machine crashed on landing near Meterin. He was buried in Bailleul Military Cemetery Extension, Nord, France.

Sold with a quantity of copied service papers and other research.