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orders, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria 476 Pair: Lieutenant E.C. Hoar, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E.C. Hoar. R.A.F.), very fine or better (2) £100-140 Lieutenant Ernest Cowley Hoar, born 1899, born Orpington, Kent; employed by Smith & Milroy Ltd (Automobile & General Engineers), Orpington, and as a Trade Lad for 10 months in a Chemical Laboratory, at R.A.F. South Farnborough prior to enlistment in the Royal Flying Corps, 18.7.1917; commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps, 8.11.1917; Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, 1.4.1918; posted as a Pilot to 103 Squadron (D.H.9’s), Beaulieu, 25.4.1918; transferred to 97 Squadron (Handley Page O/400’s), 8.5.1918; accompanied the Squadron to Xaffevillers, France in August, to join the Independent Force for strategic bombing over Germany; operational sorties including an attack on Boulay Aerodrome, 23.8.1918 and a bombing raid on Lorquin Aerodrome, 5.9.1918; invalided to R.A.F. Hospital, Holly Hill, Hampstead, 13.11.1918; discharged 23.2.1919, and transferred to the Reserve of Officers; Flying Officer, 2.9.1926; retired 2.3.1929.
477 A Great War Pair to R.E.8 Pilot, Lieutenant W.H. Jackson, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W.H. Jackson. R.A.F.), good very fine (2) £100-140 Lieutenant William Harold Jackson, born 1892, served as 1074 Sergeant, 19th Battery Motor Machine Service, on the Western Front, prior to being commissioned Second Lieutenant (Probationary), Royal Flying Corps, 30.5.1917; posted for service as a Pilot with 4 Squadron (R.E.8’s), Abeele, France, 8.9.1917; flew on reconnaissance and army co-operation duties with the squadron, before being admitted to hospital, 7.1.1918; posted to 16 Squadron (R.E.8’s), Complain l’Abbe, 2.2.1918; once again he was mainly tasked with reconnaissance and army co-operation duties, and whilst on Artillery Observation, 6.3.1918, with Lieutenant H.E. Rosborough as his Observer, ‘Two hostile machines seen flying at 6,500 feet just South of Lens. One dived on our tail and the other fired from above. R.E.8 Observer fired 250 rounds into the first machine as it dived, after which both broke off fight and turned East’ (Combat Report refers); returned to the UK, September 1918.
478 Pair: Lieutenant H.L. Jones, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H.L. Jones, R.A.F.), VM partially officially renamed, extremely fine Pair: Lieutenant C.E. Mitchell, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C.E. Mitchell. R.A.F.), extremely fine, with two named card boxes of issue Pair: Second Lieutenant W. Greenwood, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (2/Lieut. W. Greenwood. R.A.F.), good very fine, with a Scarborough and District League Cup Runners up Medal, 1938-39, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1938) and enamel British War Medal (2/Lieut. W. Hunt. R.A.F.), nearly extremely fine Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (George William Cooper), nearly extremely fine (8) £120-160 In all of the above cases, there is more than one man with the same name listed in the R.A.F. Lists as having served with the Royal Air Force during the Great War.
479 Pair: Lieutenant C.G. Kitchingman, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C.G. Kitchingman. R.A.F), VM officially renamed, very fine Pair: Lieutenant D.L.H. Moore, Royal Air Force British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. D.L.H. Moore. R.A.F.), good very fine (4) £120-160 Lieutenant Cyril Gilbert Kitchingman born Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1894; educated at Central Sheffield Secondary School; employed as a Mining Engineer prior to the Great War; enlisted as 3/A.M., Royal Flying Corps, 7.8.1917; commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant (On probation), 3.11.1917; Flying Officer, 12.2.1918; after training posted as a Pilot to 82 Squadron (F.K. 8’s), Catigny, France, 23.3.1918; the squadron were mainly tasked with reconnaissance and artillery co-operation; posted 35 Squadron (F.K. 8’s), Villers Bocage, France, 9.8.1918, and flew in similar operations to that of his previous squadron until the end of the war; discharged to the Reserve, April 1919. Lieutenant David Lucius Henry Moore, born 1892, the son of the Reverend J.S. Moore, of Wellington, Salop; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; served in Dublin University Officers’ Training Corps; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps, 19.9.1914; served in Salonika, from 11.11.1915; Lieutenant 1.1.1916; contracted Malaria, and returned to the UK via Malta; transferred by application to Royal Flying Corps, 17.4.1917; appointed Flying Officer, 20.9.1917; posted as a Pilot to 18 Squadron (D.H.9a’s), Izel-le-Hameau, France, October 1918; the squadron undertook daylight bombing until the end of the war; admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital, 5.2.1919, before being discharged with the Honorary Rank of Lieutenant, 8.4.1919.
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