A Fine Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force (Part II) 463
Pair: Lieutenant J. W. Milner, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, and onetime attached Australian Flying Corps, who claimed two enemy aircraft as out of control with No. 43 Squadron in the summer of 1918
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. J. W. Milner, R.A.F.), a little polished, otherwise generally very fine (2) £300-350
John William Milner, who was born in October 1898 and a native of Selly Park, Birmingham, joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1917, when he stated that he had a keen interest in matters mechanical and enjoyed motorcycling; so, too, that his brother was a ‘well- known as a racing motorcyclist’. Having then qualified for his aviator’s certificate and been briefly employed with No. 66 Squadron in October-November 1917, he went out to France.
Subsequently attached to 4th Australian Flying Corps at Clairmarais, operating in Sopwith Camels, in May 1918, he transferred to No. 43 Squadron in July and went on to complete at least 40 operational sorties before the end of hostilities. Moreover, he drove down a Fokker Biplane on 29 August after a burst of fire from 200 yards range, and shared in another over Bevillers on 27 September, with Captain A. H. Orlebar, the enemy aircraft being engaged from 150 yards and, half rolling, going down in a vertical dive.
Injured in a flying accident in late November 1918, Milner was admitted to hospital and was finally demobilised in September 1919; sold with a file of research, including a quote from Milner in a history of No. 43 Squadron, in which he praises fighter ace Captain H. W. Wollett, D.S.O., M.C. and Bar, who sported leopard skin flying helmet and gloves; sold with copied research.
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Pair: Lieutenant A. E. Muncaster, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps
BRITISHWARMEDAL 1914-20 (Lieut. A. E. Muncaster, R.A.F.); VICTORYMEDAL 1914-19 (2 Lieut. A. E. Muncaster, R.F.C.), an unusual combination of naming to the R.F.C. and R.A.F., very fine or better (2)
£100-120
Alfred Ellison Muncaster, who was born in Suffolk in May 1892 and resident in Alberta, Canada on the outbreak of hostilities, originally enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in April 1915, and was drafted to the Canadian Army Service Corps.
Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps as a Cadet in February 1917, when his father Captain W. H. Muncaster, was serving in No. 4 (Canadian) Casualty Clearing Station, he qualified as a pilot and was posted to No. 21 Squadron, an R.E. 8 unit, out in France, in July 1917. But he sustained serious head injuries on 12 August when taking-off for a sortie with 2nd Lieutenant J. E. Cobb as his Observer - their aircraft stalled and spun from 200 feet before crashing into the ground. Cobb died of his injuries two days later, while Muncaster was evacuated to the U.K. with a ‘fractured skull and neurasthenia’. And he relinquished his commission as a result of ill-health in December 1918; sold with a file of research.
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Three: Sergeant W. Mc C. Barnes, Royal Air Force, late City of London Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps
BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (14299 Sgt. W. Mc C. Barnes, R.F.C.); TERRITORIAL FORCE EFFICIENCYMEDAL, G. V.R. (1697 Sjt. W. M. Barnes, City of Lond. Yeo.), generally very fine or better (3)
£180-220
William McClellan Barnes was born in Sydenham, Kent, in July 1873 and originally enlisted in the 2/City of London Yeomanry in March 1910, in which capacity he remained employed until transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in December 1915, as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class (Fitter).
Embarked for France in early 1916, he was advanced to Corporal in August of the same year and was mentioned in despatches for his services in No. 27 Squadron (London Gazette 15 May 1917), the recommendation stating:
‘Corporal Barnes has been in charge of the workshop lorry of No. 27 Squadron. He has done consistently good work and can always be relied upon to carry out any duties satisfactorily.’
Having then returned to the U.K. in March 1917, he was advanced to Sergeant in the same month, and, on being transferred to the Reserve in March 1919, had attained the rank of Chief Mechanic. He was awarded his T.E.M. in July of the same year; sold with copied research.
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