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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 80

A Scarce Great War 'French Theatre' D.F.M. Group of Four to Corporal C.R.C. Shorland, Royal Flying Corps, Who Served With Nos.1 and 18 Balloon Sections, 1915-18
a) Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (7958 L.A.C. (A. Corpl) Shorland. C.R.C., R.A.F.), with official corrections
b) 1914-15 Star (7958 2.A.M. C.R. Shorland. R.F.C.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (7958. 1.A.M. C.R. Shorland. R.A.F.), generally very fine or better (4)

D.F.M. London Gazette 3.6.1919 7958 L.A.C. (A./Cpl.) Charles Robert Cooper Shorland (Margate) (France)

Belgium, Decoration Militaire London Gazette 8.2.1919 7958 A./Corpl. Clerk, Charles Robert Shorland (Margate)

7958 Corporal Charles Robert Cooper Shorland, D.F.M., born 1891; a native of Margate, Kent, he was employed prior to the Great War as an Accountant's Clerk by the Borough Council; he enlisted as Aircraftman Second Class, Royal Flying Corps, October 1915; served as Clerk with No.1 Balloon Section, in the French theatre of War from, October 1915; posted in a similar capacity to No.18 Balloon Section, May 1917; transferred as R.A.F. Clerk 1 to the Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918; advanced Corporal Clerk, 12.9.1918; he returned to UK, 31.12.1918 and was discharged 30.4.1920

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