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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 773

Pair: Air Mechanic 2nd Class A. L. Meacham, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps

British War and Victory Medals (59557. 2.A.M. A. L. Meacham. R.A.F.), nearly very fine (2)

Arthur Langley Meacham was born on 3 February 1898 in Suffolk, the sixth child of Charles Meacham, a confectioner. Enlisting into the Royal Flying Corps on 13 February 1917, he was posted to 2nd Balloon Wing, 8th Balloon Company two months later. On 1 April 1918, he transferred to the Royal Air Force as Air Mechanic 3rd Class, but his service was hampered by health problems. In May 1919, he was transferred to Dover and admitted to the King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London, suffering from a knee dislocation. Meacham died as a result of chronic bronchitis in 1966 at Mayday Hospital, Croydon; sold with extensive copied research and original photograph of recipient in uniform, pencilled '1916 Arthur Meacham R.A.F.' to reverse.

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