Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant A. F.. Ingram, Royal Air Force, late Army Cyclist Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.) mounted as worn; Defence and War Medals, unnamed; together with a mounted set of four miniature dress medals, very fine and better (8) £400-500

Arthur Ferguson Ingram was born in Standish, Lancashire on 17 September 1892. Joined Belfast University O.T.C. in March 1915. As a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Cyclist Corps he was granted his Aviator’s Certificate on 2 March 1917. He joined No. 27 Squadron in France on 7 September 1917, flying Martinsyde scouts/bombers. His first bombing attack being made on 15 September 1917, attacking the Iwuy Ammunition Dump; In an operation on 16 September, bombing Hooglede, his formation was attacked by 10 Albatross scouts and one Martinsyde was shot down in a running fight back to the British lines. His next raid was on Ath Station, 24 September 1917, then Ledeghem Station, 14 October 1917 and Gontrode Aerodrome on 1 November. On 1 November he got lost on his way to bomb Poperinghe but eventually managed to find his way home. Then flying D.H.4’s, on 28 November he was obliged to make a forced landing near Bethune due to engine failure. His last bombing run was on 18 December 1917 in an attack on Menin. He was injured on 25 December 1917 when he slipped and fell into a trench. This ended his overseas service, being transferred to England where he spent the remainder of the war. After the war he served as a Pilot with Canadian Airways Ltd. and was latterly Operations Manager.

Sold with Training Brigade Transfer Card; Gunnery Card; Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Aviator’s Certificate; Canada Commercial Air Pilot’s Certificate; several original photographs; a number of copied photographs, copied m.i.c. (confirms pair), service papers; bomb dropping and combat reports and other research.

For the recipient’s log books, see lot 1360.