Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Squadron Leader, late Warrant Officer, A. B. E. Williams, Royal Air Force

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (351867 F/Sgt. A. B. E. Williams. R.A.F.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine, M.I.D. Oak Leaf [sic] (351867 F/Sgt. A. B. E. Williams. R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for wear, very fine (5) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air Force between the Wars (1919-1939) formed by Group Captain JE Barker.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1941.

Albert Brenchley Edmund Williams was born at 94 Laburnam Grove, North End, Portsmouth, in February 1903. He joined the Royal Air Force after the Great War, and advanced to Flight Sergeant by the time that he served on the North West Frontier in 1935. Williams served in Palestine, and advanced to Warrant Officer for service during the Second War. Having been commissioned in October 1941, he was promoted Flight Lieutenant in July 1945. Williams retired as Squadron Leader 16 January 1946. In later life he was employed as an Aerial Photographer, and he died at St. Catherine’s Hospital, Birkenhead, in January 1982.