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

Pair: Lieutenant W. H. Douche, Machine Gun Corps, late Artists Rifles and Royal Flying Corps

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. W. H. Douche), very fine (2) £80-100

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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William Howard Douche was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, in September 1890, and enlisted in the 28th London Regiment (the Artists Rifles) in November 1915. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in June 1916, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant but owing to reported ‘lack of confidence in the air’, he resigned his commission and applied to be re-appointed in the Machine Gun Corps, an application that was duly realised in May 1917, following which he saw active service out in France with the 50th Battalion, M.G.C. and was advanced to Lieutenant; sold with a quantity of research, including attestation papers.