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A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air Force between the Wars (1919-1939) formed by Group Captain JE Barker

John E Barker

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№ 809

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7 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£650

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (402297 1-A.M. G. O. Morris. R.A.F.) very fine, scarce £360-400

Provenance: DNW, July 2011.

Approximately 500 TFWMs awarded to Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force personnel.

G. O. Morris was born in December 1894, and initially served during the Great War as coppersmith with the Army. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class in September 1916, and served in the French theatre of war as a Corporal Mechanic from June 1918. He was demobilised in April 1919.