A Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force

Three: Lieutenant A. B. Blanksby, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service and Armoured Car Section, who flew operationally in seaplanes in 1918

1914-15 Star (Flt. S. Lt. A. B. Blanksby, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. B. Blanksby, R.A.F.), contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (3) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force.

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Arthur Benjamin Blanksby, who was born in June 1892, the son of William Blanksby of The Park, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service as a Leading Mechanic in September 1914 and, prior to being commissioned as a Probationary Flight Officer, served in the Armoured Car Section out in France in the period April 1915 to July 1917.

Gaining his “Wings” at Cranwell in February 1918, he was posted to Newlyn as a Flight Sub. Lieutenant and, on 6 May, while piloting a Short Admiralty (184 Type) Seaplane, attacked a U-Boat with two 100lbs. bombs, but with inconclusive results. He ended the war carrying out further anti-submarine patrols as a member of No. 235 squadron and was placed on the Unemployed List in February 1919; sold with copied research.