Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Sergeant C. H. Greenlee, Royal Air Force, winner of the Queen’s Medal for Champion Shots of the Air Forces in 1954
Defence and War Medals; Queen’s Medal for Champion Shots of the Air Forces, E.II.R., 1st issue, clasp, 1954 (653649 Sgt., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 1st issue (653649 Sgt., R.A.F.) mounted as worn and sold with the recipient’s personal photograph album containing numerous photographs and news cuttings relating to his competitive shooting career between 1949-56, the Queen’s Medal appears to have been officially renamed but probably as issued, good very fine and rare (4)

Sergeant Charles Greenlee, of Dublin, serving at the R.A.F. station, Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, won the Queen’s Medal for the champion shot and the Duke of Sutherland Cup at the 1954 R.A.F. Annual Rifle Meeting held at Bisley. The medal was presented to him by the Under-Secretary of State for Air, at Bisley, on 19 June, 1954. The Queen’s Medal for Champion Shots of the Air Forces was instituted and first awarded in 1953. An unnamed medal is used for the presentation, at the end of the competition, which is then returned to be officially named to the individual concerned.