RAF
Officer's Dress Busby
Black
leather skull cap with seal fur trimming. King's crown badge. Inside has
leather sweatband and quilted red lining.
Leather chin strap. Scarce. £895
Metal
crest from R.A.F. Kai Tak, Hong Kong
Far East Flying Boat
Wing. Defenders of Freedom. Measures approx. 44 cm X 32 cm and weighs 4
kg. £200
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MEDALS TO THE
ROYAL AIR FORCE
General Service Medal (QEII) Cyprus
4157951 JNR. TECH. N.A. DEWHURST. R.A.F. £70
General Service Medal (GVI) Malaya 3128636
L.A.C. R.J. QUICK. R.A.F. £65
RAF Long Service Good Conduct Medal (QEII) 936014 SGT. H.B. BROWN. R.A.F. £55
General Service Medal (QEII) Arabian Peninsula 1860339
SGT. P.A. ARMITAGE. RAF
Royal
Air Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (QEII) 1860339 SGT. P.A. ARMITAGE. R.A.F.
Pair:
£195
RAF Long Service Good Conduct Medal (GVI) FG. OFF. R.E. EATON. R.A.F.
£95
In box of issue. From RAF Lists: Born 27 Oct. 1904. Commissioned 30 May
1941. Fl.Lt. 1 Sept. 1943. Retired 9 August 1953 with rank of Squadron Leader.
Obviously entitled to something for World War Two.
British
War Medal 1914-18 198413. 3.A.M. B.T. WILLIAMS. R.A.F.
Victory
Medal 198413. 3.A.M. B.T. WILLIAMS. R.A.F.
Copy papers. Benjamin
Thomas Williams was born in Carmarthenshire, 1900. Enlisted 18 June 1918.
To France 3 Oct. 1918 and posted to No. 12 Squadron.
This was the only operational RAF squadron serving with the Army of Occupation
in Germany from 1919-22. Discharged at Cologne 15 Jan. 1920. Trade: Rigger
(Aero).
Pair: £65
1939-45 Star Unnamed
Africa
Star North Africa 1942-43 Unnamed
Defence
Medal Unnamed
War Medal
Unnamed
General Service Medal (GVI) Malaya FG.OFF. T.J. STAITE. R.A.F.
Mounted as worn, with set of miniatures. Born 14 August 1916. 519232 Sergeant
Thomas James Staite was commissioned Pilot Officer (Emergency)
17 April 1947 (Equipment Branch). Flying Officer 17 April 1949. Flt.Lt.
29 Nov. 1951. Retired as Squadron Leader 29 Feb. 1964.
Group of Five: £255
.
British War Medal 1914-18 192290. 3.A.M. T. STOREY. R.A.F.
Victory
Medal 192290. 3.A.M. T. STOREY. R.A.F.
Copy papers. Tom Storey,
born in Harrow, 1879. Enlisted 5 June 1918. To France 19 August. Discharged
30 April 1920. Trade: Driver.
Pair: £65
British
War Medal 1914-18 188802. 3.A.M. W.D. HUGHES. R.A.F.
Victory
Medal 188802. 3.A.M. W.D. HUGHES. R.A.F.
Copy papers. William
Dunning Hughes was born in Ellesmere, 1900. He enlisted 25 May 1918 and
posted to Egypt. After 'Arm.School' he was posted to No. 58 Squadron. 19 August 1919 sent to Basra and
returned to Egypt 7 Nov. 1919 before being sent home to be discharged 6
Jan. 1920.
Pair: £65
British War Medal 1914-18 76040. PTE.1. A.E. RICHARDSON. R.A.F.
Victory
Medal 76040. PTE.1. A.E. RICHARDSON. R.A.F.
Copy papers. Albert
Edward Richardson enlisted from the army 19 April 1917. Transferred to the
reserve May 1919. Discharged April 1920.
Trade: Batman (not the caped crusader). To France 3 Nov. 1917 to 4 March
1919. Served with 32 Squadron.
Pair: £75
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Barbara Mary Nicklin
Women's Royal Air Force
.
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Defence Medal Unnamed
1939-45 War Medal Unnamed
Box of issue with issue slip. Original newspaper cutting dated 1983 about
her life. Barbara Mary Nicklin was born in Oxford in 1912. She was educated
at Anstey Physical Training College (Birmingham) and then took a teaching
post at Burford Grammar School. She became interested in flying and learned
to fly (gaining her licence in a Tipsy aeroplane), becoming secretary of
the Oxford Flying Club and also of the University and City Gliding Club.
She was also a keen driver and owned a Jaguar. She voluntered for the WRAF
on outbreak of war and was posted to radar duties. She was posted to various
stations around Britain. She was very annoyed at not being allowed to fly
and "she even managed to make a few flights herself, usually lying prone
in the forward gunner's position, and on more than one occassion illicitly
taking the plane's controls." At the end of the war she was posted as adjutant
at the Studley Priory Convalescent Depot for WRAF. She was demob 1945 and
worked at Oxford High School. She also became editor of the newsletter of
the Institute of Advanced Motorists. She died in November 2000.
Pair: £75
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