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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 126

A rare 1914 Star and clasp group of three awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class H. C. Strickland, Royal Flying Corps

1914 Star, with clasp (476 1/A.M. H. C. Strickland. R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medal (476. Sgt. H. Strickland. R.F.C.), very fine and better (3)

Herbert C. Strickland enlisted into the Royal Flying Corps on 11 November 1912, having previously served in the Air Battalion, Royal Engineers. Posted to No. 4 Squadron, R.A.F., he served in France from 9 September 1914, was promoted Temporary Sargeant-Major on 1 July 1916 and is noted as Temporary Chief Motor Mechanic in the 1918 R.A.F. Muster Roll. According to Hansard, 29 April 1914:

'Major Archer-Shee asked the Secretary of State for War whether he was aware that First Air Mechanic P. C. (sic) Strickland, Royal Flying Corps, was discharged medically unfit on 8th July, 1913; that this man has since been admitted into Hanwell Asylum suffering from acute neurasthenia; and that he was the principal support of his mother, a widow; and whether, in view of the fact that the neurasthenia is stated by doctors to be due to shock whilst received on duty from the sight of a fatal accident, a small pension may be granted under Article 11G6, Royal Warrant?'

Mr. Harold Tennant replied in Parliament:

'Inquiry is being made. I will communicate with the Hon. and gallant Member as soon as a decision has been arrived at.'

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Source:
api/parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1914/apr/29/royal-flying-corps


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