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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 292

Miniature Awards: The Great War M.C. Group of Six Attributed to Major E.W. Forbes, Royal Air Force, Late Royal Warwickshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Defence Medal; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar, good very fine, mounted as worn (6) Estimate £ 40-50 M.C. London Gazette 24.6.1916 2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) Ellert Webster Forbes, 6th Bn., R. War. R., T.F. (attd. R.F.C.) ´For conspicuous gallantry and skill. He was acting as Observer when attacked by two enemy aeroplanes, and was wounded in the chest. On recovering from the shock he saw that his pilot was killed. Climbing into the pilot´s seat he succeeded in bringing his machine back from behind the enemy´s lines and landing safely.´ T.D. London Gazette 1.11.1929 Maj. Ellert Webster Forbes, M.C., 6th Bn. R. War. R., Territorial Army. Major Ellert Webster Forbes, M.C., T.D., born Birchfield, Birmingham, March 1895; educated at Shrewsbury School; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 29.6.1914; served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front; attached Royal Flying Corps, 15.12.1916, and posted as an Observer, 16.1.1916; on the 16th May, during a sortie in an FE2b over enemy lines, he was wounded in the shoulder and lung and his pilot killed in aerial combat whilst flying with 20 Squadron (M.C.); Captain, 1.6.1916; Major, Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918; retired from the Royal Air Force, January 1920, rejoined the 6th Battalion, Royal Warwikshire Regiment, Territorial Army; employed with the Royal Artillery at home during the Second World War; Major Forbes died 25.7.1967. Provenance: Glendining, 28.3.1990 (when sold alongside the full size group).

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