Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Flight Sub. Lieutenant B. W. Horswell, Royal Naval Air Service, who was killed in a seaplane flying accident off Calshot in October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (P. Flt. Offr. B. W. Horswell, R.N.A.S.), good very fine (2) £60-80

Bazil Whittle Horswell, who was born in Paddington, London, in December 1894, entered the Royal Naval Air Service as a Probationary Flight Officer in March 1917. Posted to Vendome in the following month, he returned to the U.K. with an appointment at Cranwell in June 1917 and, on graduation, was described as ‘a very good pilot recommended for seaplanes’. Advanced to Flight Sub. Lieutenant that August, he was duly posted to Calshot, but was killed in a flying accident in an F.B.A. ‘B’ Pusher Biplane Flying Boat on 11 October. The son of Alfred and Harriet Horswell, he was buried in Paddington Cemetery, London; sold with copied service record.