A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor

Five: Flight Lieutenant R. H. Cain, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Territorials and Royal Air Force

Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (F./Lt., R.A.F.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Reginald H. Cain), generally extremely fine and the fourth rare (5) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor.

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Reginald H. Cain was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 and served on the Staff of the Deputy Director of Equipment at the Air Ministry from February 1940 until the end of hostilities. Advanced to Flight Lieutenant in October 1943, and awarded his Efficiency Medal in July 1947, he transferred to the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in the following year. He was placed on the Retired List in September 1958.