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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 706

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals worn by Air Commodore P. Warburton, Royal Air Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division (M.B.E.), Badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan; Coronation 1937; Iraq Active Service Medal, mounted as worn, toned good very fine (6)

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

An extract from the A History of Navigation in the Royal Air Force 21 October 1996 at RAF Hendon noted:

'In 1935 Wing Commander Peter Warburton had the misfortune to lose his way in Iraq while Sir Philip Sassoon, the Under Secretary of State for Air, was on an official visit to the Middle East. Since the Under Secretary’s aircraft was used in the extensive and successful search, the matter was reported to the Air Council who asked the Wing Commander for his reasons, in writing, as to how he became lost. His frank reply was that he hadn’t the foggiest idea about navigation and that was hardly surprising as it was not taught by the flying schools.'

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