Three: Lieutenant G. H. B. Dent, 2/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry, attached Royal Flying Corps and West African Regiment, late East African Mounted Rifles and King’s African Rifles

1914-15 Star (123 Pte., E. Afr. M. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) nearly extremely fine (3) £120-160

Guy Herbert Boisragon Dent was born In Aldershot on 30 May 1892. He enlisted in East Africa on 10 August 1914 as a Private in the East African Mounted Rifles before being commissioned into the King’s African Rifles as a Temporary Lieutenant and serving 25 September to 7 December 1914. Then to the Special List as a Temporary Lieutenant possibly as an Interpreter, then a 2nd Lieutenant with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry from 10 May 1915, seconded to Royal Flying Corps from 2 March 1916. Just before this, he earned a Royal Aero Club Aviators certificate (number 2209) taken on a Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School, Shoreham on 20 December 1915. With the R.F.C. he flew MFLH, Avro, BE2e, NFSG, Martin-Syde and FE2b aeroplanes. Then he was seconded to the West African Regiment, 24 January 1917, he was promoted Lieutenant, 1 July 1917. He had a very good knowledge of West African languages and dialects. He relinquished his commission, 20 September 1921. He also served in the Royal Air Force for part of the Second World War. Guy Herbert de Boisragon Dent wrote as ‘Guy Dent’, an author of adventure stories (The Detective Magazine) and science fiction, including the the novel Emperor of the If in 1926. With copied m.i.c., aero club certificate and other research.