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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 752

Five: Flight Lieutenant R.T. Nevill, Royal Air Force, Late Royal Flying Corps and Bedfordshire Regiment 1914 Star, with Bar (1364 2/A.M. R.T. Nevill. R.F.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R.T. Nevill.); General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Kurdistan (F/L. R.T. Nevill. R.A.F.); Coronation 1911, good very fine, mounted as originally worn (5) Estimate £ 450-500 Flight Lieutenant Richard Thornton Nevill, born Llanelly, Camarthen, 1892; he is believed to have been a Chorister at Westminster Abbey in 1911, and as such awarded the Coronation medal; served as no. 1757 Trooper, Wiltshire Yeomanry (T.F.), 2.12.1909-August 1914; joined as Air Mechanic 2nd Class Royal Flying Corps, 7.8.1914 and served during the Great War with 3 Squadron in the French Theatre of War from, 12.8.1914; discharged on appointment as Second Lieutenant Bedfordshire Regiment, 28.10.1914; Lieutenant 15.2.1915; attached as Temporary Captain Machine Gun Corps, 23.12.1915; served as a Special Assistant Instructor Machine Gun School, 18.9.1916-6.4.1917; reverted back to the Bedfordshire Regiment, attached R.F.C. as Captain and was appointed as Assistant Instructor in Gunnery, Royal Flying Corps Armament School, 21.7.1917; posted to Experimental Station, Orford Ness, 16.10.1917; posted to Air Experimental Station, Martlesham Heath, 5.1.1918; Captain (Technical Officer) Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918; posted Experimental Squadron, R.A.F. Establishment Farnborough (Ballooning), 11.4.1919; Captain/Flight Lieutenant (Technical Officer) 1.8.1919; posted for flying duties to 45 Squadron, Middle East Air Force, 20.5.1921; attached 47 Squadron, 11.7.1921; served as Intelligence Officer at Mesopotamia/Iraq Group Headquarters, 15.9.1921-13.10.1921; and stayed in Iraq spending his time between Headquarters and attachments to 55 Squadron until transferring to the Reserve, 25.5.1923; retired 25.8.1931.

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