Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Air Mechanic 1st Class J. T. Gadd, Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in a flying accident while serving as an Aerial Gunner in No. 3 Squadron in September 1917

British War and Victory Medals (4646 Pte. J. T. Gadd, R.F.C.), together with a wartime portrait photograph in gilt metal frame, good very fine (2) £180-220

John Thomas Gadd enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps at South Farnborough in April 1915 and first went to France in the same year, gaining entitlement to the 1914-15 Star.

Subsequently posted to No. 3 Squadron, he appears to have been killed in a flying accident on 30 September 1917, when his aircraft, piloted by Lieutenant Victor Woodcock, crashed out of control. His service record, however, includes an amendment to his cause of death: ‘Amended to read Died of Wounds Recd. in Action. WO List C/1242 d. 7.10.17’.

He was 21 years old, the son of Thomas and Jane Gadd of Winson Green, Birmingham, and was buried next to his pilot in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British cemetery, Manancourt; sold with copied research