Auction Catalogue

23 June 2005

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1057 x

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23 June 2005

Hammer Price:
£130

Pair: 2nd Lieutenant J. W. Richards, Royal Air Force, late Canadian Expeditionary Force and Royal Flying Corps

British War and Victory Medals
(2 Lieut., R.A.F.), good very fine (2) £120-150

Joseph Wilfred Richards, who was born at Watlington, Oxfordshire in August 1889, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Victoria, B.C., in September 1915, and was posted to the 67th Battalion. Embarked for England in the S.S. Olympic from Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1916, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps Cadet Wing in March 1917 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in May of the same year. He was subsequently killed in a flying accident at No. 1 School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping, near Stonehenge, when his D.H. 4 stalled and nose dived into the ground. Richards was interred in St. Leonard’s Churchyard, Watlington.