Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal H. R. Skerritt, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps

1914-15 Star (7003 2 A.M., R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (7003 Cpl., R.A.F.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Harry R. Skerritt) good very fine and better (5) £140-180

Harry Reginald Skerritt was born in the Parish of St. Mary’s, Northampton. He entered the Army on 10 September 1914 and was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 14 June 1915. He served in France with No.12 Squadron from September 1915 until the war’s end. Promoted Corporal in December 1916, he was transferred to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918 and transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve on 26 February 1919. Sold with silver sports medal, inscribed, ‘3rd Brigade Football League, R.A.F. 1917-18’ and ‘Championship Runners up, H. Skerritt, No.12 Squadron’. Sold with copied service papers.