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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 401

A Great War Royal Air Force M.S.M. awarded to Air Mechanic 1st Class R. Ripley, Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (405740 A.M.1. R. Ripley. R.A.F.), nearly extremely fine

M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Robert Ripley was born in 1894 at Newcastle, Northumberland, and worked as a motor mechanic for Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd at their Scotswood works. He served with the Royal Flying Corps as Air Mechanic 2nd Class from 9 October 1917, being promoted Air Mechanic 1st Class with the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918. Transferred to R.A.F. reserve on 4 February 1919, Ripley was discharged at Ripon five months later, returning home to his wife Annie at 44 Caroline Street, Benwell, Newcastle; sold with copied service record.


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£320

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