Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare Great War A.F.M. group of three awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class S. L. Starr, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service

Air Force Medal, G.V.R. (213632 A.M. 1 Starr, S. L., R.A.F.); British War and Victory Medals (F. 13632 S. L. Starr, A.M. 1, R.N.A.S.), generally good very fine (3) £1600-1800

Just over 100 A.F.Ms were issued in respect of services in the Great War.



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

Stephen Leonard Starr was born at Ewhurst, Sussex, in January 1894, and joined the Royal Naval Air Service in May 1916. Appointed an Air Mechanic 1st Class, he was posted to the R.N.A.S. airship base at Capel, Kent, and remained similarly employed until January 1918. Removing to a new appointment at Daedalus, the seaplane base, in the following month, the award of his A.F.M. was approved in November 1918, in respect of ‘outstanding services at Dunkirk’ (an accompanying M.O.D. letter refers). He was demobilised in early 1919; sold with copied service record.