Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant H. D. Addis, Royal Flying Corps, late Canadian Infantry, who was killed in a flying accident on 24 January 1917

1914-15 Star (77949 Cpl. H. D. Addis. 15-Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. H. D. Addis.); together with a Vimy Ridge Memorial medallion, bronze; a Vimy Pilgrimage Medal, silvered, with top ‘Canadian Legion 1936’ riband bar; and an enamelled Canadian ‘Dinna Forget’ badge, nearly extremely fine (6) £140-£180

Henry Dansey Addis was born in Bristol in 1893 and, having emigrated to Canada, attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Victoria, British Columbia. He served with the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 July 1915, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, on 22 December 1915. He transferred to the General List on 30 May 1916 for service in the Trench Mortar Battery, and was appointed a Flying Officer in the Royal Flying Corps on 5 September 1916. He gained his Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate on 23 August 1916, and was promoted temporary Lieutenant on 1 January 1917.

Addis was killed in a flying accident at Northolt, Middlesex, on 24 January 1917, when his plane crashed on take-off. A contemporary account records: ‘When between 40 and 50 feet from the ground Lieutenant Addis, an expert airman, made a very steep left hand bank, and not having enough speed the machine side-slipped and nose-dived to the earth.’ He is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

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