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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 645

'To label Albert Ball a killer would be to do him a grave injustice, his sensitive nature suffered in immediate retrospect whenever he succeeded in combat.'

C. Bowyer, Albert Ball VC (2002)

The important group of miniature dress medals worn by Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O. and two Bars, M.C., Royal Flying Corps, late Sherwood Foresters, at the time of his death the highest-scoring British ace of the Great War, with 44 aerial victories

Victoria Cross; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; Military Cross, G.V.R.; France, Second Republic, Legion of Honour; Russia, Imperial, Order of St. George, the D.S.O with green enamel loss and the reverse centre missing, generally very fine, suspended from a gold necklace and mounted in a velvet-backed glazed wooden frame, 182mm x 258mm, below a 48mm watercolour portrait miniature of Ball in a gold frame hallmarked George Elisha Sumner, London 1918

Provenance:
Given by Albert Ball to his older sister Lois Anderson.

Sold with the George E. Butcher Ltd., Smithy Row, Nottingham velvet case of issue which originally housed the miniatures.


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Sold for
£6,500

Starting price
£1400