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Campaign Groups and Pairs 302


Pair: Second Lieutenant R. A. Clarke, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps and Essex Yeomanry, who was wounded in action on the Western Front on 9 October 1918


British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. A. Clarke. R.A.F.) good very fine (2)


£100-£140


Reginald Alexander Clarke was born on 6 March 1899 and attested originally for the Essex Yeomanry. He served with the 2nd/1st Battalion, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force on 6 September 1918. Serving as an Observer with 62 Squadron he was wounded in action whilst flying Sopwith Camel E.7190 on 9 October 1918; admitted to 21 Casualty Clearing Station, he was invalided to England on 14 October 1918, and relinquished his commission on account of ill health on 14 October 1919.


Sold with a photograph of the recipient and copied research.


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Four: Second Lieutenant N. H. Leech, Royal Air Force


British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. N. H. Leech. R.A.F.); Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Norman H. Leech) very fine (4)


£100-£140


Norman Henry Leech was born on 5 September 1899 and attested for the 28th Battalion, London Regiment (Artists Rifles). He joined the Royal Air Force on 9 April 1918, was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 22 September 1918, and served with 57 Squadron during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 October 1918: whilst piloting a D.H.4 on a bombing raid at Pont sur Sambre on 27 October 1918, his Observer succeeded in shooting down at very short range, an enemy aircraft. Transferring to the unemployed list on 20 January 1919, he subsequently joined the Police.


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A Great War ‘French theatre’ M.S.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant Clerk A. W. Hood, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force


British War and Victory Medals (29010. Cpl. A. W. Hood. R.A.F.); Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (29010 A/Corpl. Clk. A. W. Hood. R.A.F.) mounted for wear, toned, generally good very fine (3)


£360-£400


M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘For services in France.’


Alfred William Hood was born in Newport, Monmouthshire in November 1887. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps as a 2nd Class Air Mechanic in May 1916, and served in the French theatre of war, 16 November 1916 - 14 April 1917 and from 2 September 1917 for the remainder of the war. Hood advanced to 1st Class Air Mechanic in December 1917, and to Corporal Clerk in December 1918. He advanced to Acting Sergeant Clerk in February 1919.


Hood was discharged in April 1920, and returned to Newport where he became a ‘Master Tailor’. He re-engaged for service with the Royal Air Force as a Corporal Equipment Clerk in February 1939, and died in March 1941.


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Three: Captain A. V. Crothers, 30th Punjabis, Indian Army, late Royal Irish Fusiliers


British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. V. Crothers.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Captn. A. V. Crothers. 2/30/Punjabis.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3)


£100-£140


Albert Victor Crothers was born on 22 February 1891 and attested for the 6th Battalion, Black Watch, at Belfast on 16 November 1914. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers on 16 November 1915, he served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from August 1916, before transferring to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in October 1917. Advanced Captain, he saw further service with the 2nd Battalion, 30th Punjabis during the Third Afghan War.


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Three: Reverend A. M. Nelson, Indian Ecclesiastical Department, Chaplain to the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, and later Chaplain in the Bombay Presidency


British War and Victory Medals (Rev. A. M. Nelson); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; together with the recipient’s related miniature awards, good very fine (3)


£100-£140


The Reverend Alan Manson Nelson was appointed to the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department in 1903. In March 1904 he was attached to the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at Cawnpore, and is confirmed on the Indian Army medal roll for the 1911 Durbar Medal. He is noted as Senior Chaplain (Temporarily reverted to Military duty) in March 1914, and in 1916 he was appointed Chaplain to the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia. In 1920 he was appointed Chaplain of the Bombay Presidency, and Senior Chaplain of St. Andrews Church, Bombay, and the following year was Presidency Senior Chaplain, Church of Scotland. In October 1922 he is shown as on leave pending retirement, and subsequently served as minister at Tundergarth, Dumfriesshire, from 1924 until his retirement in 1934. He died at Dumfries, Scotland, in 1949.


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