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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 340

A set of Flying Badges for an Officer of the Royal Naval Air Service.
A mirror-pair of Pilot's gilt metal eagle sleeve-badges, each with three screw-post fixings (one badge complete with its gilt retaining-nuts); together with a miniature gilt eagle for shoulder-board (attachment-wires missing) (3)

In June 1914, naval pilots were authorised to wear a small gilt eagle on both sleeves. This order was almost immediately countermanded, and pilots wore the eagle on the left sleeve only until June 1917, when Admiralty Weekly Order No 2106 directed that eagles should again be worn on both sleeves. The wearing of miniature eagles on the shoulder-boards used with tropical uniform had been authorised in April 1916. It does not appear that these miniature eagles were mirror-paired.

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£300