Auction Catalogue

27 & 28 June 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 258

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28 June 2012

Hammer Price:
£160

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut. C. W. Pidcock) very fine £120-160

Claudius William Pidcock was born on 17 January 1891. He was educated at the University of Liverpool, 1911-13. After graduating he was a Draughtsman with Vickers Aviation, 1913-14 and the Draughtsman/Designer of Seaplanes with Grahame White, Hendon, 1914. He entered the Great War as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. Later with the R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. and was for a time an Inspector of Seaplane Construction. Transferred to the Unemployed List in March 1919.

With copied R.A.F. service papers and m.i.c.