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India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (F/L. E. N. H. Gray. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine £200-260

Edwin Noel Hillman Gray was born at Donnybrook, Dublin, on 17 December 1893. He qualified as L.R.C.P. & S., D.P.H., and served originally in the British Army as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France from July 1915 to September 1917, when he was invalided Home with trench fever. Promoted to Captain, R.A.M.C., on 21 January 1916, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps in December 1917 and was promoted to Flight Lieutenant (Medical Branch) in the Royal Air Force from 1 October 1918. He served in India on operations in Waziristan 1921-24. As a Squadron Leader he was posted as Medical Officer to the Home Aircraft Depot at Henlow on 15 August 1927; to H.Q. Inland Area on 18 January 1932; to Station H.Q., Bircham Newton on 11 February 1935; and as a Wing Commander to No. 10 Flying Training School in 1937. He was promoted to Wing Commander (Medical Branch) on 2 July 1937, and retired on 1 April 1938. He was briefly recalled to the Active List on 15 July 1940, and retired on 24 September 1942. Also entitled to 1914-15 Star trio. Sold with comprehensive research.