Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1445

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£60

Pair: Leading Mechanic C. F. Mayor, Royal Naval Air Service

British War and Victory Medals (F. 4468 C. F. Mayor, L.M., R.N.A.S.), together with a Great War postcard from the recipient home, dated July 1915, depicting an R.N.A.S. motor-cycle section, the last with officially re-impressed naming, very fine or better (2) £30-50

Charles Frederick Mayor was born at Neadwood, Staffordshire, in February 1898, and enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in May 1915. Having then witnessed active service with No. 3 Wing out in France from September 1915 until May 1917, he took up an appointment at Crystal Palace; sold with copied service record.