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Three: Sergeant A. H. Muff, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, an N.C.O. Observer who was decorated for his gallantry in No. 25 Squadron British War and Victory Medals (59404 Sgt. A. H. Muff, R.A.F.), in their card boxes of issue, with related registered envelope; Italy, Al Valore Militare, in bronze, unnamed, the first with minor official correction to surname, extremely fine (3) £600-800
Hammer Price: £1,100
Eight: Flying Officer J. Richmond, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1914-15 Star (4240 2 A.M. I. Richmond, R.F.C.), note initial; British War and Victory Medals (4240 F. Sgt. J. Richmond, R.F.C.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; France, Medaille Militaire, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, enamel work crudely repaired on the last, otherwise very fine and better (8) £250-300
Hammer Price: £1,200
10 & 11 December 2014
Four: Air Mechanic 1st Class H. R. Gladwell, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, one of a handful of R.F.C. personnel awarded the Khedive’s Sudan 1910 Medal 1914-15 Star (7650 2 A.M. H. R. Gladwell, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (7650 1 A.M. H. R. Gladwell, R.A.F.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, no clasp (7650 2/A.M. H. R. Gladwell, R.F.C.), officially impressed naming, service number officially corrected on the last, good very fine and better (4) £1100-1300
Hammer Price: £1,300
19–21 June 2013
The British War Medal 1914-20 awarded to Captain J. L. Trollope, M.C. and Bar, Royal Air Force, late Royal Engineers and Royal Flying Corps, who claimed a record six victories in a single day as a Flight Commander in No. 43 Squadron in March 1918: shortly afterwards shot down by the renowned ace Leutnant Paul Billik and taken prisoner, he suffered terrible wounds that would affect him for the rest of his life - ‘Tall, well built and well liked, Trollope was a brilliant fighter pilot and an...
Hammer Price: £1,500
13 & 14 September 2012
Three: Flying Officer M. M. Miln, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who flew operationally in seaplanes of “Syren Force” in North Russia in the summer of 1919 British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut. M. M. Miln, R.A.F.); Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, breast badge, with swords, silver-gilt and enamelled both sides, stamp mark on eyelet, possibly French, with original riband and as worn by the recipient (see portrait photograph), enamel work slightly chipped...
A Fine Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force (Part II) A rare Great War C.M.G., C.B.E., M.C. group of eight awarded to Air Commodore A. Fletcher, Royal Air Force, late Royal Engineers and Royal Flying Corps The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge,...
Hammer Price: £1,600
A rare Great War East Africa operations D.S.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant T. R. Johnston, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was decorated for his services in H.M.S. Manica, the Navy’s first kite balloon ship Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (J. 5523 T. R. Johnston, P.O., R.N.A.S., E. Africa, Mar.-June 1917); British War and Victory Medals (313789 Sgt. T. R. Johnston, R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (313789 Sgt. T. R....
Hammer Price: £1,650
A scarce Great War M.M group of four awarded to Chief Master Mechanic C. I. Collett, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who served as an Observer in R.E. 8s of No. 12 Squadron Military Medal, G.V.R. (413 Fl. Sjt. C. I. Collett, 12/Sq. R.F.C.); 1914-15 Star (413 Cpl. C. I. Collett, R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (413 T.S.M. C. I. Collett, R.F.C.), generally good very fine (4) £1100-1300
Hammer Price: £1,800
The Great War campaign group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant D. C. Rees, Royal Air Force, late South African Infantry and Royal Flying Corps, who died of wounds while serving as a pilot in No. 84 Squadron in September 1918 - having claimed three kite balloons and shared in the destruction of at least one enemy aircraft 1914-15 Star (Pte. D. C. Rees, 8th Infantry); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. D. C. Rees, R.A.F.), together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18...
Hammer Price: £2,600
A rare Great War airship operations D.S.C. group of four awarded to Captain C. S. Coltson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who was decorated for a well-executed and convincing attack on a U-Boat in February 1917, while in command of H.M. Airship C-22 Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917; 1914-15 Star (Mid. C. S. Coltson, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. S. Coltson, R.A.F.), generally good very fine (4) £3000-3500
Hammer Price: £2,700
A rare Great War D.S.M. group of three awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Grade J. A. Mortimer, Royal Naval Air Service, a member of the famous “Spider Web” patrol who was present on the occasion of the destruction of the enemy submarines UC-1 and UC-6 Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (F. 11344 J. A. Mortimer, Air Mech. 1st Gr., R.N.A.S., 28th Sept. 1917); British War and Victory Medals (F. 11344 J. A. Mortimer, A.M. 1, R.N.A.S.), good very fine (3) £2000-2500
The important Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Colonel A. D. Carden, Royal Engineers, attached Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, a pioneer of the air who, in his own words, learned to fly by ‘taking his plane into the sky and putting it down again without killing myself’, an achievement all the more admirable in light of the fact ‘he was probably the only one-armed pilot in the world’: from his part in the maiden flight of the army balloon Nulli Secundus II to his...
Hammer Price: £3,700
An important Great War airship pioneer’s A.F.C. group of three awarded to Flight Lieutenant I. C. Little, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, whose ‘Little-Crook anchoring gear’ design enabled the first use of defensive aircraft being attached to airships: having then carried out a parachute descent from the R. 34 during her trail-blazing visit to the U.S.A. in July 1919, he was among those drowned in the R. 38 airship disaster over the Humber in August 1921 Air Force...
Hammer Price: £3,800
A rare and interesting Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Captain J. R. Ramsay, Royal Air Force, late R.E. Balloon Section and Royal Flying Corps, a qualified ‘skilled balloonist’ who was decorated as a Sergeant-Major in the very first list of M.Cs to be gazetted - having come to favourable notice for saving Great Britain’s first military airship - the Nulli Secundus - during a storm in October 1907, he became just the third entrant recorded on the books of the newly established...
Hammer Price: £6,500
The outstanding Great war fighter ace’s Italy operations D.F.C. group of three awarded to Flight Lieutenant G. F. M. Apps, Royal Canadian Air Force, late Artist’s Rifles, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force: carrying out his first offensive patrols in Sopwith Camels of No. 66 Squadron in January 1918, he was to remain similarly employed until being wounded by A.A. fire in his right leg in mid-July - a period encompassing well in excess of 100 operational sorties and 10 confirmed...
Hammer Price: £8,000
An outstanding Great War ace’s D.S.C. group of three awarded to Captain C. B. Ridley, Royal Air Force, late Royal Naval Air Service, who completed in excess of 200 operational sorties in Sopwith Triplanes and Camels of No. 1 Naval Squadron and No. 201 Squadron, a remarkable record that included at least 40 air-to-air combats and undoubtedly more “kills” than his official total of 11: moreover, he was renowned for his low-level strafing activities, once dropping to 10 feet to support...
‘After tea Collett and I went back to town by train and had a talk about many things, for Collett was in the Camel Squadron on the same aerodrome and he used to come back shot to ribbons nearly every time he went out. One day he drove a German machine down to the ground behind the German lines, and then to make quite sure he fired at it on the ground until it burst into flames. Collett was always downing the Hun, whenever and wherever he could find him ...’ Flying Fury, by James...
Hammer Price: £12,000
The unique and important Great War D.C.M. and Bar group of three awarded to Sergeant F. Johnson, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, who, having claimed four victories as an Air Gunner and Observer in No. 22 Squadron, raised his score to 16 piloting Bristol Fighters of No. 20 and No. 62 Squadrons - more often than not engaging his victims at ranges under 50 yards Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (6391 Cpl. F. Johnson, 22/Sqn. R.F.C.); British War and...
Hammer Price: £28,000
The extremely rare and important Great War D.S.O. and Bar group of five awarded to Major A. M. Wilkinson, Royal Air Force, late Hampshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, who gained a total of 19 victories in D.H. 2s of No. 24 Squadron and Bristol Fighters of No. 48 Squadron, nine of them in “Bloody April” 1917 and at least four of these in a single day - statistics that made him only second to Albert Ball, V.C., in attaining a double figure score and being awarded a “Double...
Hammer Price: £29,000
An important Great War fighter ace’s D.S.O., M.C. and 2 Bars group of four to Captain J. Gilmour, Royal Air Force, late Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and Royal Flying Corps, who amassed around 40 victories, the majority of them in Sopwith Camels of No. 65 Squadron and, remarkably, five of them in a single day Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. J....
Hammer Price: £40,000
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