A Great War A.F.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. M. Lewis, Royal Air Force, late British Red Cross Society, Royal Garrison Artillery and Royal Flying Corps

Air Force Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. M. Lewis, R.A.F.), generally good very fine (3) £800-1000

A.F.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Archie Mansel Lewis, who was born in May 1890 and from Stradey Castle, Llanelly, Wales, first witnessed active service as a Chauffeur in a Mobile Ambulance Unit of the British Red Cross in November 1914, thereby gaining entitlement to the 1914 Star.

Commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery in November 1915, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in January 1917 and served as a pilot out in France with No. 8 Squadron, a general duties unit flying B.E. 2c aircraft, from February to November of the same year, notching up 270 hours flying time. Invalided home with a number of stress related ailments, he nonetheless served as a Test Observer in Large A.W. Bristol Fighters, prior to being transferred to the Unemployed List in September 1919; sold with research.