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Important early Royal Flying Corps ‘Deeds That Thrill The Empire’ DSO group , OBE. & 1914 Star & Bar trio , Lieut. Somerset L.I. attd R.F.C. /Lieut Col. R.F.C. awarded for dropping a bomb squarely on a troop train in Don Station , March 1915. A founding officer of the Royal Flying Corps – who qualified as a pilot at Brooklands in 1912 . Flew a lengthy and daring reconnaissance in the Battle of Le Cateau 26 August 1914 having earlier. been credited with the first successful bombing being a transport vehicle park: downed by ground fire, he took to a bicycle and a car, and delivered an important intelligence report on reaching his base at midnight. Also credited with flying the first ever photographic reconnaissance sortie – when he took five photographs of enemy positions on the Aisne on 15 September 1914 – and for experimenting in night flying
A rare Posthumous Polar Medal (E11R) Clasp Antarctic 1964-5, (1 of 3 awards with this clasp) David (‘Dai’) Peter Wild, a surveyor, killed instantly in Heimefrontfjella in 1965 along with his two team members when their motorised Musteg sledge disappeared into a crevasse some 290 miles from base. Their bodies could not be recovered. He is commemorated on a plaque on Survey Point , Vardeklettane and ‘Wildskorvene’ named in his honour. 1 of only 26 posthumous awards
Excellent Air Sea Rescue Navigator’s DFC , American DFC combination with Flying Logbook, 279 Sqdn . recommended for immediate award and USA DFC for the rescue of an American crew by ‘outstanding navigation and outstanding airmanship’ and following his award commended again for the rescue of an entire Flying Fortress crew
WW2 Military Cross & Second award Bar, with named GSM, Major, 9/14th Punjab Regt. MC for the crossing of the Irrawaddy 1945 Bar for the advance on Mandalay
Afghanistan 1878, Lieut. 1/12th Regt. Commissioned from the ranks of the 6th where he had seen service in the Mutiny & Northwest Frontier. Later Captain h.p.
Stunning 617 (Dambuster) Squadron Pilot’s 1944 D.S.O., 1943 ‘Pathfinder’s’ D.F.C., 1943 D.F.M. group of nine awarded to Wellington, Lancaster and Mosquito Pilot. At least 87 Ops, over Europe, he flew 30 of them with the famous “Dam Busters”; and became a “Tallboy” specialist. Scored a direct hit, with the “Earthquake” Bomb, on the entrance of the Saumur Tunnel on 8 June 1944; having obliterated Leonard Cheshire’s marking Flare causing Cheshire to remark “…hold on chaps, I’ll have to mark it again.” FlewVampire Jets over the Malayan Jungle completing nearly 50 ‘strikes’ and returned to Bomber Command to take part in Operations during the Suez Crisis in November 1956. With a super archive, Flying Log Books, photos, a selection of 617 Reunion Menus including ealy ones signed by, Barnes Wallis , Leonard Cheshire, ‘Willie’ Tate, Dave Shannon, Bill Reid VC among others
Fine 1940 DFM 40 Squadron (Blenheims) shot down and wounded, made ashore by dinghy where taken prisoner of war. Following six months in hospital was held in a series of camps until 1945 with photographic images of the recipient, and an original letter written whilst PoW
Second War ‘1945’ D.F.C. and Second Award Bar, ‘1943’ D.F.M. group to R.A.F. who flew in at least 79 operational sorties, with 106, 83 and 7 Squadrons – of which 68 were with the Path Finder Force, all as a Lancaster Visual Bomb Aimer of a Marker Crew
A remarkable American Boat Service, clasp 14 December 1814, with 1st class Order of Ferdinand of Spain, Lieutenant , Royal Marines. Present In the boats in the attack on the American ships on Lake Borgne. One of the 100 Marine detachment at the battle of New Orleans and wounded in the head by a musket ball during the successful attack and the capture of the American guns on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, 8Jan. 1815. Shipwrecked off Campeachy , Gulf of Mexico, aboard HMS Tay in 1816 and taken prisoner by the Spanish Navy . Commanded a company of the Royal Marine battalion present during the Carlist War in 1836-1837 where the Marines were actively engaged especially at the battle of Hernani and awarded the order of Ferdinand
Military Cross group, a fine award for Palestine operations 1939, Highland Light Infantry
Order of the British Empire ribbon A useful lot, various grades Older Toye Kenning & Spencer ribbon
Punjab 2 clasps, Chilianwala, Goojerat Lieutenant 61st Foot
Indian Mutiny clasp Defence of Lucknow, 32nd Foot , original defender shown as deceased on the roll
M.G.S. 2 bars, Vittoria, Toulouse, (Qr. Mr. ), Waterloo, (Qr. Mr.), Royal Horse Guards, commissioned from the ranks of the the ‘Blues’still aged only 24
Distinguished Service Medal group, a 1914 award to Petty Officer H.M.S Legion for the Battle off Texel 17 October, 1914 at the sinking of 4 German torpedo boat destroyers
Military General service, clasps. Badajoz, Salamanca, 4th Foot. Wounded in the leg at the storming of Badajoz and again the thigh at New Orleans,
Air Force Medal (E11R) Sergeant Pilot later Flight Lieutenant
Queen’s Sudan pair & QSA Lieutenant, Lancs. Fusiliers
Officers Waterloo, 1st Life Guards. Quartermaster. Having received his commission from Corporal Major (R.S.M.) served at Waterloo being the only one of the 6 Q.M.s. of the 1st & 2nd Lifeguards to remain unscathed by the evening with 4 being killed and 1 wounded. The 1st Lifeguards had been led in 11 separate charges by their severely wounded Colonel Ferrier. Ferrier being killed and all remaining officers casualty or unhorsed the final charge was led by a Quartermaster who almost immediately fell wounded
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