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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 75

A Great War A.F.C. Group of Three to Airship Pilot, Captain A. Sparrow, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force
a) Air Force Cross, G.V.R., in John Pinches case of issue
b) British War and Victory Medals, BWM with official corrections, nearly extremely fine (3)

A.F.C. London Gazette 1.1.1919 Captain Arthur Sparrow, R.A.F.

Captain Arthur Sparrow, A.F.C (1893-1921), of 'Green Manor, Shrewsbury'; commissioned Temporary Flight Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service, 19.8.1915; posted to R.N.A.S. Wormwood Scrubbs, October 1915; and saw postings as an Airship Pilot at R.N.A.S. Kingsnorth, Polegate and Howden; Flight Lieutenant 7.5.1917; Lieutenant (Honorary Captain), Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918.

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