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GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY Palestine and Kenya


On being demobilised from the R.A.F.V.R., Savage gained appointment as a Lieutenant in the Federation of Malaya Police, in which capacity he witnessed active service during the emergency period (Medal & clasp), but he later rejoined the Royal Air Force and, by early 1954, was flying operationally out in Kenya against the Mau Mau. But, as described in the following official account, he was killed during the course of a sortie on 19 January:


‘Flight Lieutenant Savage was the pilot of a Harvard aircraft which took off from Mweiga airfield for a strike against a known Mau Mau hideout. Whilst climbing towards the target, he was seen by No. 2 aircraft to be turning sharply to port some 300 feet below and close to the ground. The aircraft was not observed flying again. When located, the aircraft had crashed in the Aberdare Forest area ... it is assumed that during the sharp turn to port the aircraft stalled and flicked into the ground.’


Savage was buried in the Nyeri Civil Cemetery, Kenya, and it is believed that his next of kin never received his Africa General Service Medal; sold with a large quantity of research, including extensive O.R.B. extracts, to which should be added a recommendation for consulting Martin Bowman’s The Reich Intruders, the definitive history of dramatic low-level medium bomber raids over Europe in the last War.


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An unusual Second World War A.F.C. group of six awarded to Flight Lieutenant C. E. Young, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, late Army Service Corps and Royal Flying Corps, who flew operationally in R.E. 8s and Bristol Fighters of No. 9 Squadron in the Great War: Headmaster of Rossall School by the renewal of hostilities, he quickly returned to uniform and ‘despite his age’, was decorated for his fine work as a Flying Instructor


AIR FORCE CROSS, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated ‘1943’; 1914-15 STAR (2 Lieut. C. E. Young, A.S.C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. C. E. Young, R.A.F.); DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45, generally very fine or better (6)


£1200-1500 A.F.C. London Gazette 1 January 1943. The original recommendation states:


‘This officer was Headmaster of Rossall School and, in response to a call for experienced personnel, volunteered for flying instructor duties in July 1940, being commissioned on 5 July 1940. He performed his duties with great efficiency but in July 1942, at the request of the Board of Directors of the School, he resigned his commission to return to his headmastership. At the same time he volunteered to give his services in any capacity during the August vacation. Flying Officer Young, despite his age, has an exceptional record of devoted service with a high number of flying hours and has at all times been a source of inspiration to the instructors and pupils alike.’


Charles Edgar “Carl” Young was born in Bristol in 1897, the son of a Professor of Chemistry, and was educated at Castle Park Prep School, Dublin, and Charterhouse.


Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps shortly after the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he went out to France in the following year, but subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and qualified for his aviator’s certificate (No. 4809) in June 1917.


Posted to No. 9 Squadron that August, he flew numerous bombing, photographic and artillery-spotting sorties throughout the Third battle of Ypres, and beyond, as well as carrying out low-level strafing of enemy troops and trenches. This, then, the most costly period of No. 9’s operational career, when, in August alone, 24 aircrew were lost to enemy action, among them one of Young’s early Observers, 2nd Lieutenant F. J. A. Wodehouse. Indeed squadron records reveal frequent interception by enemy aircraft, Young driving off one E.A. at 6,000 feet over Pilckem on 11 September 1917, and a large two-seater during an artillery observation patrol on 25 January 1918. But he came through unscathed and ended the War as a flying instructor back in the U.K.


Having then attended Exeter College, Oxford, Young taught Classics at Fettes up until 1929, when he was appointed Headmaster of Lincoln School and, after fulfilling that role with great success, he was invited to take over the helm at Rossall. Here, as made clear by accompanying obituaries, he was responsible for saving the school from closure in the wake of the depression in the 1930s and, with the exception of his wartime exploits as a flying instructor, remained in charge for 20 years. In the interim, Young had been ordained and on retiring from Rossall he became vicar of Thornthwaite-with-Braithwaite in the Lakelands. He died in 1977.


Sold with a large quantity of research, including photocopy of the recipient’s Flying Log Book for the period May- August 1917, the original of which forms part of the Imperial War Museum’ s collection.


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