Orders, Decorations and Medals

A well documented group of five to Squadron Leader A. F. Marlowe, Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Air Service

British War and Victory Medals (Capt., R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R. (Sqn. Ldr., R.A.F.V.R.), together with a quantity of original documentation and photographs, including, Aviator’s Certificate (17 December 1915) and an interesting series of letters written by the recipient in the 1970’s detailing various wartime reminiscences, good very fine or better (5) £140-180

M.I.D. London Gazette 2 June 1943

Squadron Leader Augustine Francis Marlowe enlisted into the Empire Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers on 8 September 1914, commissioned as Sub Lieutenant, R.N.A.S., 7 August 1915; Flight Sub Lieutenant, R.F.C. 1916; Flight Lieutenant, R.A.F., 1 April 1918. Transferred to the Reserve of Officers 1 May 1923, rejoined the R.A.F. with the rank of Flight Lieutenant 30 August 1939. During the Great War Marlowe served with the Royal Naval Air Service, British Aegean Squadron, based at Stavros, and participated in the actions against the Goeben and Breslau.

In one of his letters he touches upon the subject of his M.I.D. ‘I am afraid I have no recollection of any citation in connection with the ‘Mention’. It came as a complete surprise and the only thing I can conjecture that might have some bearing on it, is the occasion when a party of us had just returned one night from a binge at a local pub (we were at Wittering near Stamford) when an enemy aircraft started dropping a stick of bombs, and one of them exploded just outside our mess where we were standing in the hall. I remember rushing out (alone) with a huge fire extinguisher which I picked up and tried to put the fires out in several cars parked outside. I was there by myself for sometime and I really enjoyed it. I had always wanted to use one of those extinguishers.’