The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Four: Wing Commander A. C. Gilmer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Honourable Artillery Company and Royal Naval Air Service

British War and Victory Medals (P. Flt. Offr. A. C. Gilmer, R.N.A.S.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, these last in their original named card forwarding box, good very fine and better (4) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Arthur Coulson Gilmer, who was born in March 1895, served for 20 months in the Honourable Artillery Company prior to being appointed a Temporary Probationary Flight Officer in the Royal Naval Air Service in November 1916. Posted to a flying school at Vendome in France in the following month, he obtained his aviator’s certificate in March 1917, when he was posted back to the U.K. to attend Cranwell, but was admitted to hospital suffering from Neurasthenia that May - an ongoing complaint that resulted in him being discharged in June 1918. Comissioned as a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F.V.R. on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he was advanced to Squadron Leader in January 1945 and to the acting rank of Wing Commander that June, and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 14 June 1945 refers). He was released from the service in June 1947, having latterly served at Biggin Hill; sold with copied service records.