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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 555

A Great War A.F.M. awarded to Sergeant Mechanic R. G. Goldfinch, Royal Air Force

Air Force Medal, G.V.R. (213223 Serjt. Mech. R. G. Goldfinch; R.A.F.), good very fine

A.F.M. London Gazette 3 December 1918.

Raymond George Goldfinch, a native of Fielding, New Zealand, was born on 30 October 1893. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service (No. F13223) in 1916, having previously served in the New Zealand Territorial Force, before being transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Sergeant Mechanic on its creation on 1 April 1918. Goldfinch was awarded his A.F.M. for the long distance flight of Wing Commander (later Air Vice-Marshal) Amyas Eden Bourton.

Another Air Force Medal, named to Goldfinch, is held in the collection of the Auckland Museum.

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