Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant B. W. Wilson, Royal Air Force, late London Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who claimed two victories as an Observer in No. 20 Squadron prior to his death in action in September 1918

1914-15 Star (P.S.-5933 Pte. B. W. Wilson, R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. B. W. Wilson, R.A.F.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Brodie Wyatt Wilson) and his silver identity bracelet, the whole contained in a double-fronted display case with original portrait photograph and more recent research, the letters ‘P.S.’ on the first officially re-impressed, good very fine or better (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C., R.N.A.S. and R.A.F..

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Brodie Wyatt Wilson was born in December 1892, the son of the Rector of Little Billing, Northamptonshire, and completed his education at Keble College, Oxford. Enlisting in the 19th Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, in September 1914, he was later commissioned, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in December 1917.

Having then completed his training as an Observer, he was posted to No. 20 Squadron out in France in April 1918, and quickly saw combat, an Albatros Scout falling victim to his guns over Estraires on 31 May and a Fokker Biplane being sent down out of control near St. Quentin on 16 September. His Bristol Fighter, however, was damaged in another combat two days later, and, on the 23rd, was shot down in flames, killing both Wilson and his pilot, Lieutenant J. Nicolson - contemporary records suggest they may have fallen victim to Vizefeldwebel Kurt Ungewitter of Jasta 24.

He was 25 years old and is buried in Grand Seraucourt British Cemetery, France.