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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 214

British War Medal (3) (2.Lieut. J.H. Cremonini.; Lieut. T.S. Nash. R.A.F; Flt. S. Lt. N. Carmichael. R.N.A.S.), 1st officially renamed, generally good very fine Victory Medal (Lieut. G.C. Brown. R.A.F.), good very fine (4) Estimate £ 80-120 Second Lieutenant James Henry Cremonini, born Olton, near Birmingham, 1898; joined Royal Flying Corps, 2.2.1917; he was serving as a Pilot with 66 (Fighter) Squadon (Sopwith Camels), Estree Blanche, France, October 1917; he was killed whilst flying Camel B4606, 18.10.1917, and is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Lieutenant T.S. Nash, born 1889, the son of the Reverend C.V. Nash; a native of Kincardine O´Neil, Aberdeenshire; served during the Great War as a Pilot in the Royal Air Force, and was serving with 80 (Fighter) Squadron (Sopwith Camels), Vignacourt, France, August 1918; he was killed whilst flying Camel B5587, 9.8.1918, and is buried in Vignacourt British Cemetery, Somme, France. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Ian Neil Carmichael, a native of Oban, Scotland; served during the Great War as a Pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service, and was serving at Calshot (Seaplane) Naval Air Station, July 1916; he was killed whilst flying Short 827 8556, 20.7.1916, his Observer Flight Sub-Lieutenant W.R. Wallace, died of his injuries the following day; Carmichael is buried in Oban (Pennyfuir) Cemetery. Lieutenant George Clavell Brown, born 1898, ´eldest son of Mr. George Brown, 15, Orient Street, Everton. Lieut. Brown was educated at Heyworth-street Council School, and obtained a scholarship entitling him to enter the college in Shaw Street, He distinguished himself there, and afterwards became a member of the staff of the Liverpool Education Committee. He joined the Army in February, 1917, when he was little over eighteen years of age. He had been out at the front for over six months, and, serving in the Royal Flying Corps, had made about 200 flights in that period. He performed very valuable work, and when he received the wounds from which he died he was attacked by six enemy scouts. He was the pilot of the machine, and his observer was killed.´ (copy of a cutting from the Post and Mercury, dated 15.10.1918, refers); Brown was commissioned Second Lieutenant R.F.C., 8.11.1917; Lieutenant (Pilot) R.A.F., 1.4.1918; served with 53 Squadron, he was wounded in action whilst flying RE8 D6804, 9.10.1918, he died of his wounds the following day; his Observer Second Lieutenant L. F. Raby was killed in the action; both Pilot and Observer are buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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