Pair: Lieutenant V. W. Hatton, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. V. W. Hatton, R.A.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2/Lieut. V. W. Hatton, R.F.C.), very fine or better (2) £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force.

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Victor William Hatton was born in Wood Green, London in February 1899 and was educated at Owen’s School, Islington, from which latter establishment he enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps at South Farnborough in March 1916 - owing to his age, however, he was transferred to the Reserve until recalled in March 1917, following which he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Having then attended a training unit at Yatesbury, he qualified as an artillery pilot and was posted to No. 5 Squadron out in France in February 1918. However, on 23 March 1918, he was sent back to the Home Establishment suffering from ‘a nervous disability in the sky’. He was placed on the Unemployed List in February 1919; sold with an original photograph of the recipient in R.F.C. uniform on his motor cycle, together with a quantity of research.