Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Squadron Leader F. H. Masser, Royal Air Force

Defence Medal; Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R., with Second Award Bar (Act. Sqn. Ldr. F. H. Masser. R.A.F.V.R. (T.)); Iraq, Kingdom, Active Service Medal, no clasp, good very fine (3) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Francis Henry Masser was born in York on 2 August 1900, and attested for the Royal Air Force as an Aircraftman 2nd Class (Photographer) on 18 November 1920, He served in Egypt in the early 1920s, and was re-mustered as Pilot on 30 June 1924, and was promoted Sergeant Pilot on 30 June 1924. Awarded the Iraq Active Service Medal, he was invalided out of the service unfit on 17 January 1929, and subsequently served with the Cadet Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He died in 1965.