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18 & 19 July 2018

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№ 512

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18 July 2018

Hammer Price:
£110

The British War Medal awarded to Short seaplane pilot Flight Sub-Lieutenant I. N. Carmichael, Royal Naval Air Service, who was killed whilst flying over the English Channel, 20 July 1916

British War Medal 1914-20 (Flt. S. Lt. I. N. Carmicheal. R.N.A.S.) very fine £80-120

Ian Neil Carmichael was a native of Oban, Scotland, and was the son of H. F. Carmichael of Ardsheal, Broadwater, Worthing, Sussex. He served during the Great War as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant with the Royal Naval Air Service. Carmichael was posted as a pilot to R.N.A.S. Calshot, and was killed whilst flying Short 827 8556 over the English Channel, 20 July 1916. His observer, Flight Sub-Lieutenant W. R. Wallace, died of injuries the following day.

Flight Sub-Lieutenant Carmichael is buried in Oban (Pennyfuir) Cemetery, Argyllshire.