Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: 2nd Lieutenant E. F. Sedgwick, Royal Air Force, late 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles) Canadian Infantry and Royal Flying Corps

1914-15 Star (40889 L./Cpl., 24th Canadian Bn.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.A.F.); French War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, privately engraved naming ‘Lieut. E. F. Sedgwick, R.F.C.’; French Victory Medal 1914-18, privately engraved naming ‘Lieut. E. F. Sedgwick, R.F.C.’, all with original ribands and continental-style riband pins for wearing, together with a set of related miniature dress miniatures (excluding the last), the first renamed, a little polished but generally very fine and interesting (9)
£400-500

Edward Frederick Sedgwick, who was born in November 1892, qualified as an Observer Officer in October 1918, in which month he joined No. 35 Squadron out in France. He was placed on the Unemployed List at the end of the following year.

Sold with a quantity of related artefacts and three wartime photographs, the former including the recipient’s R.F.C. Officer’s cap, complete with badge, the interior Andre & Co. label with inked initials, ‘E.F.S.’; old R.F.C. and R.A.F. tie-clips; a pair of I.D. discs, both Canadian Expeditionary Force issues; a C.E.F. enamelled “Service at the Front” badge, with numbered reverse; a severely dented French coin that has all the hallmarks of having been hit by a bullet or shrapnel; and a copy of R. C. Fetherstonhaugh’s history, The 24th Battalion, C.E.F., Victoria Rifles of Canada 1914-1919 (Montreal, 1920).