M.C. Action A superb Pilot and Observer family group:
The well-documented Great War Observer’s M.C. group of four awarded to 2nd Lieutenant T. A. M. S. Lewis, Royal Flying Corps, late Royal Fusiliers and Royal West Kents, who shared in the destruction of several enemy aircraft, including that flown by the famous German ace Leutnant Karl Emil Schafer: his M.C. was an immediate award for bringing down two enemy aircraft on 27 July 1917, when he was ‘severely wounded but continued to work his gun lying on his back’ MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘2nd Lt. T. A. M. Lewis, 20th Sqdn. R.F.C., July 27th 1917’; 1914 -15 STAR (1136 Pte. T. A. M. S. Lewis. R. Fus.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2 Lieut. T. A. M. S. R.F.C.), mounted as worn, good very fine or better
The Great War campaign group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant G. T. W. Burkett, M.C., Royal Flying Corps, Lewis’s Australian pilot who was decorated for the same action on 27 July 1917, and who was also wounded: it was during a subsequent hospital visit that he was introduced to Lewis’s sister Charlotte, whom he afterwards married 1914-15 STAR (4346 Gnr. G. T. W. Burkett. 1/A.D.A.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (2 Lieut. G. T. W. Burkett. R.F.C.), good very fine or better (lot)
