SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS 1194 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (F/L. E. N. H. Gray. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine £200-260
Edwin Noel Hillman Gray was born at Donnybrook, Dublin, on 17 December 1893. He qualified as L.R.C.P. & S., D.P.H., and served originally in the British Army as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France from July 1915 to September 1917, when he was invalided Home with trench fever. Promoted to Captain, R.A.M.C., on 21 January 1916, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps in December 1917 and was promoted to Flight Lieutenant (Medical Branch) in the Royal Air Force from 1 October 1918. He served in India on operations in Waziristan 1921-24. As a Squadron Leader he was posted as Medical Officer to the Home Aircraft Depot at Henlow on 15 August 1927; to H.Q. Inland Area on 18 January 1932; to Station H.Q., Bircham Newton on 11 February 1935; and as a Wing Commander to No. 10 Flying Training School in 1937. He was promoted to Wing Commander (Medical Branch) on 2 July 1937, and retired on 1 April 1938. He was briefly recalled to the Active List on 15 July 1940, and retired on 24 September 1942. Also entitled to 1914-15 Star trio. Sold with comprehensive research.
1195
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1925 (327978. Cpl. E. D. Croft. R.A.F.) minor edge bruise, very fine
£600-800
Eric Donald Croft was born in Starbeck, Harrogate in February 1903. His ‘RAF service goes back to Feb 1919 when I joined as a boy at the initial opening of the Boys Wing at Halton and later went to Gosport to finish my training. In November 1921 I was posted to 60 Squadron Risalpur and on promotion to 27 Squadron still at Risalpur. As an air gunner I took part in several bombing raids from both Risalpur and Miramshah but can’t say my aim was very good. The bomb sights were not much good and I had better results using the trailing edge of the old DH 9A. I quite enjoyed my service in India and had a tour round when representing the RAF in the boxing team at bantamweight. On leaving India in 1927 I went to Cranwell and from there to Waddington, City of Lincoln reserve squadron and from there was given a special discharge to join Imperial Airways who were just about to open their Indian and African routes.’
Croft was employed as an aero-engineer by Imperial Airways, and resided at 64 Castle Street, Scarborough, in later life. He died in Ashford, Kent, 24 November 1983.
Sold with copied research, two annotated photographic images of recipient during service on the North West Frontier 1925-26 (one of which was illustrated in The Flying Elephants by Chaz Bowyer) and a typed copy of an extract taken from a letter from the recipient written 16 November 1973.
x1196
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1925 (344350. A.C.1. A. R. Burley. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine
£600-800
Verified on the published roll; approximately 260 ‘Waziristan 1925’ clasps were issued to R.A.F. personnel under Wing Commander R. C. M. Pink, C.B.
x1197 INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (3520204 Pte. E. Talbot. Manch. R.) good very fine £100-120 1198
INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1908-35 (2), 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1908, Abor 1911-12 (4126 Sepoy Muhammad Khan 40th Pathans) unofficial connection rod between clasps; 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1930-31, North West Frontier 1935 (7598 Sep. Hari Singh, 5-12 F.F.R.) nearly very fine or better (2)
£180-220 x1199 1200 1201 x1202
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (783 Sepoy Karram Illahi, 2-152 Pjbis.) good very fine
£60-80
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 5 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, Burma 1930-32 (607 Gnr. Mohd. Ali, 27/Mtn. Bty.) good very fine
£80-120 KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1910-21, 1st issue, no clasp, bronze issue, unnamed as issued, contact marks, very fine £180-220
KHEDIVE’S SUDAN 1910-21 (2), 2nd issue, no clasp, possible details erased from edge; 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Atwot, unnamed, fitted with replacement swivel suspension, the first good fine, the second with edge bruise, otherwise very fine (2)
£180-220
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