Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War pair to Lieutenant A.C. Ball, R.A.F., later Wing Commander, R.A.F.V.R., who was brother to the famous Royal Flying Corps 'Ace', Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O., M.C.

BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut. A.C. Ball, R.A.F.) very fine (2)

(Arthur) Cyril Ball qualified first as an Observer and then as a Pilot, but was shot down and made a Prisoner of War, after having shot down only one aircraft himself. Badly treated as a prisoner, he was repatriated on 14 December 1918, and returned to the U.K. to assist his father, Sir Albert Ball, in his company, the Steeplejack and General Engineering Co. He followed his father onto the Nottingham Corporation and became an Alderman and J.P. before ill health caused him to shed these duties. In 1939 he started the Nottingham unit of the Air Defence Cadet Corps, and when this became the Air Training Corps, he became the first Wing Commander R.A.F.V.R. (T) of the Nottingham Wing, a post he held until the end of the war. These medals together with those of his brother Capt. Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., and his nephew Flt. Lieut. G.A.S. Anderson, were exhibited at the Nottingham Numismatic Congress of 1960.