Orders, Decorations and Medals

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Ernest Harold Canning) good very fine £100-150

D.F.C. London Gazette 2 November 1918. ‘This officer has displayed marked courage and skill in bombing enemy transport etc., at low altitudes. He took a conspicuous part in the attack on bridges over a certain river; subjected to very heavy machine-gun fire he descended to 150 feet to exactly locate their position, and bombed the from a low altitude’.

Lieutenant Ernest Harold Canning, D.F.C., 102 Squadron, Royal Air Force, late Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action whilst flying in France on 5 October 1918, aged 23 years. He was buried in the Drummond Cemetery, Raillencourt, Nord, France.