Auction Catalogue

25 March 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 647

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25 March 1997

Hammer Price:
£160

A Great War M.B.E. pair awarded to Captain A. E. Siddons-Wilson, Royal Air Force, formerly R.N.A.S. and R.N.V.R.

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 1st type; British War Medal (Capt., R.A.F.) not entitled to any other Great War medals, extremely fine (2)

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Albert Edgar Siddons-Wilson was appointed Sub-Lieut. (Engine duties) R.N.V.R. in May 1916, and Lieutenant in April 1917. He was attached to the Royal Naval Air Service and served at the Yarmouth seaplane base as a specialist engineer officer responsible for the servicing and repair of aircraft engines. He became Lieutenant (temp Captain) in the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918.