Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Original Great War Pilot’s Flying Log Book (Army Book 425 Type), appertaining to 2nd Lieutenant R. E. H. Springett, Royal Air Force, late Army Service Corps and Royal Flying Corps, with entries dating from first days of training in November 1917 through to graduation in November 1918; together with his original loose-leaf lecture notes from assorted flying courses, the majority handwritten in ink and including engine sketches, etc.; three contemporary photographs, all of them featuring the recipient in uniform; and his Army I.D. discs (2), generally in good condition (7) £200-250

Raymond Evans Herbert Springett, a music student at King Edward VI’s Grammar School, Chelmsford, enlisted in the Army Service Corps in June 1916, aged 17 years. In November 1917, however, he was discharged to a commission in the Royal Flying Corps and was still undertaking his pilot’s training at the end of the War.