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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 264

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Northern Kurdistan (P./O. J. Ramsden, R.A.F.), good very fine

Approximately 65 officers and 280 airmen were awarded the ‘Northern Kurdistan’ clasp.

James Ramsden was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force in May 1931 and quickly saw action in the Northern Kurdistan in the following year, when he flew Westland Wapitis of No. 55 Squadron in operations against Sheik Admed of Barzan and his rebellious tribesmen.

Advanced to Flying Officer in February 1933, he was placed on the Reserve of Air Force Officers as a Flight Lieutenant in the mid-1930s, but resigned his commission on transferring to the Air Branch of the Royal Navy on 26 September 1938, when he was appointed a Lieutenant (A.).

A man of his name was photographed in The Tatler attending a combined R.A.F., Cavalry and F.A.N.Y. charity polo match in August 1940, whilst the matter of the murder of James Ramsden in Malaya was raised in the House of Commons (Coventry Evening Telegraph, 11 June 1948 refers).

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