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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 450

A Fine Great War ´1918 Salonika Front´ Ace´s D.F.C. Group of Eight to Flying Officer F.D. ´On Line´ Travers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, An Extremely Aggressive Pilot Who ´Zoomed Up to My Left and Met a DV Coming Head On for My Machine... From About 200 Yards. E.A. Continued to Come Straight for My Machine As I Did for His Nose On... I Fired about 100 Rounds from Both Guns Up To Point Blank Range... My Machine Just Managed to Avoid Collision. I Then Turned Sharply Round and Observed the DV Going Down in a Steep Nose Dive, With Smoke Pouring´. He Later Accounted for 2 Albatros Scouts in the Space of 5 Minutes. In Between the Wars Travers Became a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, and in 1943, As a Master Pilot, He Piloted the ´Golden Hind´ During the First Crossing of the Indian Ocean from West to East
a) Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lieut. F.D. Travers. R.A.F.), minor official correction to BWM
c) 1939-1945 Star
d) Africa Star
d) Defence and War Medals, with King´s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, silver Badge
e) France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated ´1914-1918´, avec Palmes, traces of verdigris to Africa Star, otherwise good very fine, with the following related material
- The recipient´s two Imperial Airways and BOAC pilot´s bullion cap badges
- Several original photographs of recipient in uniform
- A quantity of letters from the recipient´s widow during the 1980s
- A large amount of copied research including his Log Books, 1926-66, the originals being held along with other documents at the R.A.F. Musuem Hendon (lot)

Sold for
£5,500