GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY Newland’s foray with Randall on 22 August was rewarded with another enemy aircraft destroyed:
‘Comines - While on Offensive Patrol with 12 Bristol Fighters, about 25 - 30 E.A. attacked the formation from all directions. Four attacked Machine No. E2158 (Pilot - Lt. G. E. Randall. Observer - Sergt. A. Newland, D.F.M.) and the Observer fired at each in turn as it dived. Only one E.A. then kept attacking and was shot down by Sergt. Newland and was seen to hit the ground E. of Comines.’ (Combat Report refers)
In September, Newland was reunited with August Iaccaci and a ‘purple patch’ ensued. On 6 September they forced down out of control a Fokker DVII over the Cambrai - St. Quentin area, and 25 minutes later destroyed another over the same area. They accounted for another two Fokker DVII’s destroyed on 15 September, and yet another the following day. Newland and Iaccaci recorded their final victories of the war on 27 September, when they destroyed a Fokker DVII and forced down another out of control north of Bernot. It was a good month for the Squadron, during which ‘Lale, the Iaccaci brothers and W. M. Thomson were all prominent in the scoring lists during September... D.F.C. awards to personnel included Capts. Godfrey, Middleton, Lale and Lts. Groom, Hardcastle, T. C. Traill, Paul and August Iaccaci, Thomson, R. W. Turner and A. Mills. Sgt. Newland received a D.F.M. and Bar; while Sgt. F. Johnson was awarded a Bar to his D.C.M....’ (Top Scorers by N. Franks & F. Bailey refers)
Newland, having advanced to Sergeant Mechanic, continued to serve with 20 Squadron in France until 18 October 1918. By the end of October the Squadron had claimed over 600 air combat victories, ‘with the Bristols - aptly named “King of the Two-seaters” - once crews had learned to use them to full advantage, the squadron found it could take on almost any odds and give a good account of itself. The teamwork of a Bristol pilot and gunner, forged in the heat of combat, was probably the finest combination of the air war - and it was a team of such “combinations” which made 20 Squadron the top-scoring unit of the war in the air.’ (Ibid)
Newland was employed by the London Postal Service after the war, and he received the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement in 1959. He died in Edmonton, London, in 1964.
Only 2 D.F.M. and Second Award Bars were awarded for services during the Great War, and 4 Second Award Bars in total were awarded between 1918-1939.
Sold with the following original related items and documents: General Officer Commandings’ Certificate of Congratulation on the occasion of the award of the D.F.M., dated 23 July 1918; another on the occasion of the award of the Bar to the D.F.M., dated 13 October 1918 - both framed and glazed; Army Orders by General Sir H. S. Rawlinson, Bart. G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Commanding Fourth Army, announcing the award of the Bar to Newland’s D.F.M., this framed and glazed; named Certificate of Honourable Discharge due to being disabled in the Great War, dated 8 July 1920; portrait photograph of recipient in flying jacket and a framed and glazed painting of a small child with toy - signed ‘Arthur Newland 1931’
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A Second War 1944 Lancaster Air Gunner’s D.F.M. awarded to Flight Sergeant S. Loseby, 582 Squadron, Royal Air Force, who flew in at least 49 operational sorties, the vast majority as part of Pathfinder Force, No. 8 Group. Heavily engaged in the lead up to D-Day, he continued to take part in raids on important targets in the immediate aftermath of the invasion. Loseby also participated in a large number of raids on V Rocket sites situated throughout France
DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL,
G.VI.R. (1399608. F/Sgt. S. Loseby. R.A.F.) abrasive marks to edge around first part of number, very fine
£1600-1800 D.F.M. London Gazette 12 December 1944:
‘Flight Sergeant Loseby has completed a long tour of operations as a rear gunner, having voluntarily continued beyond the first tour limit. Many of his operations have been against heavily defended targets. He has carried out his duty in the air with cheerfulness and in good spirits. He is recommended for a non-immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.
Remarks by Station Commander:
This N.C.O. has completed many sorties over some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany and Occupied Territory. He has displayed courage of the highest order, and is recommended for the award of the Distinguished Flying Medal.’
Sydney Loseby served as a Flight Sergeant and Air Gunner with the Royal Air Force during the Second War. He flew in 16 operational sorties, 23 May 1943 - 2 February 1944, prior to joining 582 Squadron and these included: Dortmund; Dusseldorf; Essen; Krefeld; Gelsenkirchen; Turin; Remschied; Milan (2); Peenemunde; Berlin (2); Nurnburg; Mannheim; Frankfurt and Augsberg.
Loseby was posted for operational flying with 582 Squadron (Lancasters), Little Staughton, upon it’s formation 1 April 1944. The Squadron was formed from personnel mainly drawn from 7 and 156 Squadrons, and served as part of the Pathfinder Force, No. 8 Group. Loseby flew in at least 33 operational sorties with the Squadron, including: Lille; Laon (2); Noisy-Le-Sec; Cologne; Nantes; Louvain; Boulogne; Duisberg; Aachen; Mardyck; Mont Couple; Calais (Coastal Batteries), 4 June 1944; Foret De Cerisy, 7 June 1944, an attack on an important 6-way road junction halfway between Bayeux and St.-Lô, surrounded by woods believed to contain fuel dumps and German tank units preparing to counter-attack the Allied landing forces; Rennes, 10 June 1944, airfield situated to the south of the Normandy battle area; Tours, 11 June 1944, railway targets; Oisemont (flying-bomb site); Wizernes (flying-bomb site); L’Hey (flying-bomb site); Nucourt (flyng-bomb site); Gapennes (flying-bomb site), 11 July 1944, the first ‘heavy Oboe’ attack of the war; St. Philibert Ferme (flying-bomb site); Vaires; Mont Cadon (flying-bomb site); Forêt de Croc (flying-bomb site); Stuttgart; Chateau Berniapre (flying-bomb site); L’Isle Adam (flying-bomb site); Trossy St. Maxim (flying-bomb site); Mare De Magne; Brest; Kiel and Stettin.
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