Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Memorial Plaque to Second Lieutenant J. F. Shaw, Royal Flying Corps, a DH4 pilot killed in a flying accident, 19 February 1918

Memorial Plaque (John Fyffe Shaw), with framed and glazed Memorial Scroll, very fine (lot) £80-120

John Fyffe Shaw was the son of Mr and Mrs J. B. Shaw of Dundee, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps in January 1918. He was posted as a Pilot to 26 Training Squadron, Narborough, Norfolk, the following month. Shaw was killed in a flying accident, 19 February 1918, when piloting ‘DH4 B2121 which stalled off a right hand turn at low level. The crash was probably due to engine failure as the throttle was found half open. The aircraft crashed when trying to return to the airfield. The passenger, Second Lieutenant C. A. Law, was also killed.’ (The Great Government Aerodrome, R.F.C. Narborough, refers).

Shaw was only 18 years of age, and was returned home to be buried in Dundee Western Cemetery. M.I.C. indicates that no Great War Medals were issued

Sold with the following related items and documents: 2 Identity Discs, both engraved ‘J. F. Shaw Presb. Royal Flying Corps’; Royal Flying Corps cloth shoulder title; Royal Flying Corps (Officers) Graduation Certificate, dated 27 January 1918; Letter of Condolence to the recipient’s father from the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, dated 11 March 1918, with envelope addressed to him at ‘Willow Cottage, 31 Sidfield Road, Dundee’; various family photographs, photographic images of the recipient, registry certificates and certificates relating to recipient’s burial plot and other ephemera.