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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 709

A Scarce Great War D.F.M. to Sergeant Mechanic, Handley Page Observer, E.C. Carpenter, Royal Air Force, Late Royal Naval Air Service, Reported as Missing In Action Whilst Taking Part on a Raid on Saarbrucken, 18.7.1918 Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (210951 Sergt.-Mech. Obs: Carpenter. E.C., R.A.F.), minor official correction to number, suspension slack, extremely fine Estimate £ 2,400-2,800 D.F.M. London Gazette1.1.1919 210951 Serjt. Mech. (Obs.) Edwin Charles Carpenter (King´´s Lynn). 210951 Sergeant Mechanic Edwin Charles Carpenter, D.F.M., born King´´s Lynn, Norfolk, 1889; enlisted Air Mechanic 2nd Class Royal Naval Air Service, 28.1.1916; served at H.M.S. Daedalus (Naval Seaplane Training School), 24.9.1917-4.12.1917, serving with the R.N.A.S. in the French Theatre of War, 5.12.1917-31.1.1918, before returning to H.M.S. Daedalus, 1.2.1918-31.2.1918; served with Naval "A" Squadron Royal Air Force, from 1.4.1918; this became 16 Squadron which was then incorporated into 216 Squadron with whom he served in the French Theatre of War, from April 1918 until the end of the War; the squadron acted as part of a night-bomber force flying Handley Pages, which was known from June 1918 as the Independent Force; Carpenter was reported missing in action taking part in a raid on Saarbrucken, 18.7.1918; on the way back from the raid he, and Lieutenant´´s J. Stronech and B. Norcross in Handley Page 0/100, were reported missing whilst flying near Luneville, France (The Royal Air Force Awards 1918-1919, K.J. Nelson, CD, refers); discharged 30.4.1920. Provenance: J.B. Hayward March 1973

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