Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (Flt. S. Lt. M. S. Varden, R.N.A.S.), good very fine £40-60

Medwin Seymour Varden was born in June 1897 and entered the Royal Naval Air Service as a Probationary Flight Officer in December 1916. Having then qualified as a pilot at Eastchurch and Killingholme, he was posted as a Flight Sub. Lieutenant to the seaplane base at Calshot in July 1917, and it was in this latter capacity that he was killed on 14 September, his Short Admiralty 184 Type Seaplane being seen to crash into the sea off Bembridge. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chatham War Memorial.

Sold with copied record of service.