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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 743

A Scarce Great War A.F.M. Pair to Corporal Mechanic R. Bance, Royal Air Force, Later Royal Naval Air Service a) Air Force Medal, G.V.R. (220540 Corpl. Mech. Bance, R., R.A.F.) b) British War Medal (F.20540 R. Bance. A.M.1. R.N.A.S.), toned, suspension slack on last, generally good very fine (2) Estimate £ 1,600-1,800 A.F.M. London Gazette 8.2.1919 220540 Cpl. Mec. Reginald Bance (Halstow, Rochester). M.I.D. London Gazette 3.6.1918 F/20540 Acting First Air Mechanic Reginald Bance R.N.A.S. Corporal Mechanic Reginald Bance, A.F.M., born Rochester, Kent; enlisted Royal Naval Air Service, 11.9.1916; served on H.M.S. Daedalus (Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent) from June 1917; the latter was a seaplane base and training school which was established in 1917, and whose first commander was Squadron Commander Dogulas Evill; Bance transferred to the R.A.F., 1.4.1918; discharged 16.3.1921.

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