Orders, Decorations and Medals

A rare ‘Southern Kurdistan 1931’ campaign group of six awarded to Flight Sergeant J. Grant, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue (351778 Sgt. J. Grant, R.A.F.) Iraq, Active Service Medal 1924-38, 1 clasp, (in Arabic) Southern Kurdistan 1931, unnamed, mounted court style for display, good very fine and better (6) £250-300

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1946.

John Grant was born on 12 April 1903. A General Clerk by occupation, he joined the R.A.F. on 12 May 1922 taking his discharge on 7 April 1953. Between 1948-53, as a member of the Medical Branch, his duties included those of ‘.... flight nursing attendant in casualty air evacuation aircraft, accepting responsibility for patients while in flight’.

With the recipient’s original Certificate of Service booklet and copied gazette extract.