Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Major Hartley Pullan, D.F.C., Royal Army Service Corps, late R.F.C. and R.A.F.

DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS, G.V.R., named on reverse and contained in case of issue with original horizontal ribbon; BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS (2/Licut., RAF.), in card boxes of issue; 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL, the last four in card box of issue. Sold with original R.A.F. commission, various official documents and a quantity of original photographs, mostly W.W.l period, nearly extremely fine (7)

D.F.C., London Gazette, 21 September, 1918.

Major Hartley Pullen was born in Harrogate on 9 October, 1899, and was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps as a Second Lieutenant on 28 November, 1917. An accompanying newspaper cutting notifying his death states: 'Major Pullan joined the Royal Flying Corps during the 1914-18 war and was awarded the D.F.C. for bringing down seven enemy aircraft over France. In the 1939-45 war he joined the R.A.S.C. and saw service in France and Italy. Between the wars, Major Pullan worked for the West Yorkshire Road Car Co. Ltd., and after the war became a civil servant. He died in 1967 at the age of 68.