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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 909

(x) Pair: Aircraftman 1st Class A. B. Spencer, Royal Naval Air Service

British War and Victory Medals (F.31779 A. B. Spencer. A.C.1 R.N.A.S.), staining and verdigris to second, very fine (2)


Arthur Browning Spencer was born on 26 December 1888 at Stoke Newington, London, and worked as a clerk. He attested for the Royal Naval Air Service on 25 June 1917 and served at a wide variety of R.N.A.S. stations including Crystal Palace, Pulham, Lee-on-Solent, Dunkirk and Strathbeg in Aberdeenshire, before transferring to the R.A.F. on 31 March 1918. He later lived with his wife Susan Winifred Spencer at 10 The Vale, Hounslow, dying at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, on 30 November 1951; sold with a 1915 'On War Service' brass badge, No. 76446, a small, attractive, gold London Rifle Brigade fob, impressed '9 Ct.', and the original named box of issue for the medals, this damaged and flattened, together with copied service record.

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Sold for
£75

Starting price
£20