Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Flight Cadet G. R. Gaches, Royal Air Force, late Army Service Corps

1914 Star, with clasp (SS-628 Cpl. G. R. Gaches, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (SS-628 S. Sjt. G. R. Gaches, A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (SS-628 Sjt. G. R. Gaches, A.S.C.), good very fine (4) £200-250

George R. Gaches, who first entered the French theatre of war as a Corporal in the Army Service Corps at the end of August 1914 and was awarded the M.S.M. (London Gazette 1 January 1917 refers), subsequently transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Flight Cadet. Involved in a flying accident at 205 T.D.S. in Vendome on 16 August 1918 (The Camel File refers), he emerged unscathed from the wreckage, and may just have witnessed further active service before the War’s end.