Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Three: Sergeant L. A. F. Young, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service

British War and Victory Medals (F. 17347 A.C. 1, R.N.A.S.), together with related Memorial Scroll and Plaque (Lionel Arthur Frederick Young), both contained within a contemporary glazed display frame, extremely fine (3) £150-200

Lionel Arthur Frederick Young was born in Streatham, London in June 1898 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in June 1916. Appointed an Aircraftman 2nd Class aboard the seaplane carrier Campania in the following month, he served afloat until October 1917 when he took up an appointment at R.N.A.S. Eastchurch. Young subsequently attended ‘Aerial Gunner’ and Observer courses at R.A.F. Manston, and was posted to No. 22 Squadron at Serny, France in late May 1918. A week or so later, on 5 June 1918, while flying on patrol as an Observer to Lieutenant C. H. Dunster, his aircraft, a Bristol F2B, was seen to go down but ‘in control’ towards Lestrem. His pilot, though wounded, survived the impact to be taken P.O.W., but Young was killed. He was buried at Merville Cemetery.

Also sold with a wartime silk postcard, the reverse inscribed in pencil, ‘With love from Lionel’; a portrait photograph; Imperial War Graves Commission letter, dated 6 July 1923, regarding the re-location of the recipient’s grave; and a contemporary R.A.F. Observer’s brevet.