Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Acting Wing Commander K. Fawssett, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Act. Wg. Cdr., R.A.F.V.R.) nearly extremely fine (5) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Kenneth Fawssett was born on 3 January 1910 and educated at St. Paul’s School and St. Thomas’s Hospital where he qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1932. After an appointment as ophthalmic house surgeon he went into general practice in Newbury, Berkshire. Prior to the Second World War he joined the R.A.F.V.R. Called up at the outbreak of hostilities, he served in the Middle East and attained the rank of Acting Wing Commander. After the war he decided to specialise in ophthalmology and was appointed to the resident staff at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) and took the D.O.M.S. in 1946. Returning to Newbury he became responsible for the ophthalmic work in the district and later became consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Reading area. Fawssett died in Newbury on 3 December 1974.

With copied research.