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Sold between 10 December & 28 March 2012

4 parts

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

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Lot

№ 230

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19 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£220

Three: Flight Sergeant T. W. Print, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (F. 5636 T. W. Print, A.M. 1, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (F. 5636 T. W. Print, C.P.O. 3, R.N.A.S.), very fine or better (3) £150-200

Thomas William Print was born in Gloucester in July 1890 and enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service as an Air Mechanic 1 in June 1915, direct from his career as a policemen. Borne on the books of President II, he served out in France, latterly in the periods July-August 1916 and January-June 1917, when he was based at Dunkirk. Advanced to Chief Petty Officer III that October, and mentioned in despatches in May 1918 (his service record refers), he was re-mustered as a Flight Sergeant in the newly established Royal Air Force and placed on the Reserve in March 1919; sold with copied R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. service record, the last of which notes that he enlisted in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in November 1939.