Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Fg. Off. T. K. Breakell. R.A.F.) later style engraved naming, edge bruising, nearly very fine £60-80

Thomas Knowles Breakall served during the Great War as a Lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and in the Royal Flying Corps, before transferring to the R.A.F. as a Lieutenant. Despite his best efforts during 1914 and 1915 to qualify as a first class pilot, he failed, and in March 1915 he requested to rejoin as an observer. He eventually entered the R.F.C. as a 2nd Class Air Mechanic and gained his R.A.C. Aviators Certificate on a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School at Ruislip, certificate No. 3854 being awarded on 22 November 1916 (Entitled to British War, Victory, and Territorial Force War Medal). Having transferred to the R.A.F. as Lieutenant (Aeroplane Officer) he served with No. 31 Squadron in India 1921-22. He resigned his commission in August 1922 and later held a commercial pilot licence No. 285. He died at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, on 3 November 1963, his occupation being given as ‘retired aircraft pilot (civilian)’. Sold with full research.