Orders, Decorations and Medals

A scarce Great War D.F.M. group of three awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Grade Reginald A. Miller, Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Division and Royal Air Force

Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (205670 A.M.1, R.A.F.); British War and Victory Medals (F.5670 A.M.1, R.N.A.S.) good very fine (3) £1200-1400

D.F.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Reginald Arthur Miller, an electrician, was born in Wandsworth in 1891 and served in the 1st Monmouthshire Territorials from 1909 to 1914. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service for the duration of the war in June 1915, with the rating of probationary Petty Officer Mechanic, and from President II was sent to the Armoured Car Division in the Dardanelles. It appears that he served during 1915 at the Air Ship Station, Mudros, with the rating of Air Mechanic 1. His service record shows that he returned to the U.K. in March 1917 and indicates he was serving at Felixstowe when ‘Severely wounded by bombs dropped from enemy aeroplane on 4 July 1917’. He returned to Felixstowe on 11 December 1917 and continued there to the inception of the R.A.F. on 1 April 1918, when he remustered with the Air Force trade classification of Fitter (A.E.). He subsequently served with No. 231 Squadron which carried out F.3 and F.5 flying-boat patrols of the North Sea. Sold with copied R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. service records.