Six: Sergeant R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regiment and Royal Air Force

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1168 Cpl. R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (1168 Corpl. R. G. Fletcher, Middlesex Regt.); 1914-15 Star (2965 Sjt. R. G. Fletcher, Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (405229 Sjt. R. G. Fletcher, R.A.F.), in their card boxes of issue; Defence Medal 1939-45, in its named card forwarding box with Army Council slip, together with I.D. disc and Middlesex badges (4), possible official correction to initials on the fifth, good very fine and better (11) £200-250

Fletcher first entered the Mediterranean theatre of war on 18 July 1915, presumably as a member of the 2/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Territorial Force), which unit landed at Suvla, Gallipoli in the following month and was decimated in subsequent fighting around Chocolate and Scimitar Hills. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and thence to the Royal Air Force.