Orders, Decorations and Medals

A scarce Great War A.F.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant F. W. Morter, Royal Air Force, late Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who was a professional cricketer for Warwickshire in the early 1920s

Air Force Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Lt. F. W. Morter, R. War. R. and R.A.F.’; British War and Victory Medals (Lt. F. W. Morter, R.F.C.), good very fine (3) £1600-1800

A.F.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Frank William Morter, who was born in Down, Kent in August 1897, was commissioned in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment in March 1915, direct from his studies at Birmingham University. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1916, he took his aviator’s certificate in a Maurice Farman Biplane in mid-June and, following postings to No. 47 and 55 Squadrons on the Home Establishment, joined No. 42 Squadron, flying B.E. 2s out in France, in October of the same year. Just three weeks later he was admitted to an Advanced Hospital and evacuated to the U.K. Cleared once more for flying duties, he was subsequently posted to the Wireless & Observers School in March 1917 and No. 1 Observers School of Aerial Gunnery in March 1918, in which latter capacity he most likely was awarded his A.F.C. Transferred to the Unemployed List in June 1919, Morter died at Five Ways, Birmingham in December 1958; sold with a file of research.