Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Victory Medal awarded to R.E.8 pilot Lieutenant G. C. Brown, 53 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 10 October 1918
Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. G. C. Brown. R.A.F.) very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. T. S. Nash. R.A.F.) good very fine (2) £100-140

George Clavell Brown was born in Liverpool, in June 1898, the son of Mr and Mrs G. Brown of 15 Orient Street, Everton. He was employed as a Local Government Clerk for the Liverpool Education Committee prior to being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps in November 1917. He trained as a pilot and advanced to Lieutenant in April 1918. He ‘had been out at the front for six months and serving with the Royal Flying Corps, had made about 200 flights in that period. He performed very valuable work, and when he received the wounds from which he died he was attacked by six enemy scouts. He was the pilot of the machine, and his observer was killed.’ (copy of newspaper article included in the lot refers)

The incident referred to above took place on 9 October 1918, when Brown was flying a R.E.8 with Second Lieutenant L. F. Raby as his observer. Both members of 53 Squadron, Raby died that day, whilst Brown succumbed to his wounds the following day. Both pilot and observer were buried in Lijssenthoek Cemetery, Belgium.

Two men named ‘T.S. Nash’ served with the Royal Air Force during the Great War, one as a Second Lieutenant and the other as a Lieutenant. The latter was a Sopwith Camel pilot with 80 Squadron, who was credited with 1 ‘Victory’ and died of wounds, 9 August 1918. He is buried in Vignacourt British Cemetery, Somme, France.

Sold with copied research, and a photographic image of Brown in uniform.