Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

A Second War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Group Captain J. C. M. Hay, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. C. M. Hay. R.F.C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Air Council enclosure and accompanying slip, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘G/C J. C. M. Hay, O.B.E., Forest Green House, Lyndhurst, Hants.’; together with the recipient’s original Royal Flying Corps leather flying helmet, with R.F.C. cloth insignia, the inner fur lining almost all missing, with significant corrosion to the metal poppers; two sporting medals, one silver, the other bronze and enamel, both unnamed; and a R.A.F. wings brooch, about extremely fine

Three: Miss Mary Monica Liddell, later Mrs. J. C. M. Hay, British Red Cross Society and Voluntary Aid Detachment
British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service 1914-18, with integral top riband bar, in card box of issue; British Red Cross Society County of Hampshire Badge, the reverse inscribed ‘12950 Monica Liddell’; British Red Cross Society Medal for Proficiency in Red Cross Work, unnamed, good very fine

Pair: Miss Gillian Monica Hay, British Red Cross Society
British Red Cross Society Cross, with integral top riband bar for Proficiency in Red Cross Nursing, the reverse engraved ‘45815 G. M. Hay.’, in named card box of issue; Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, the reverse engraved ‘M. Hay Aug. 1932’, in case of issue; together with two lapel badges, good very fine (lot) £300-£400

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945.

John Crawford Matthew Hay, the second son of Professor Matthew Hay, Aberdeen University, was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 12 September 1914, and served during the Great War with the Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front from 1916 onwards. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, he was promoted Captain before the War’s end, and then served post-War with the Royal Air Force. He was placed on the Retired List on 12 September 1933, but was recalled to duty during the Second World War, and was advanced Group Captain. For his services during the Second World War he was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Hay married Miss Mary Monica Liddell on 16 May 1918, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire in 1954. He died on 4 August 1962.

Sold with the recipient’s Royal Air Force Commission document, appointing him a Flight Lieutenant, dated 1 August 1919, in original posting tube, with related newspaper cutting; the recipient’s Royal Flying Corps training manual; and a signed R.F.C. menu card.

Miss Mary Monica Liddell was the younger daughter of John Liddell Esq., of Sherfield Manor, Hampshire, and the sister of Captain John Aidan Liddell, V.C., M.C., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who died of wounds received in action in 1915 whilst serving with the Royal Flying Corps. She served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse at the Auxiliary Hospital set up in her family home from 1 October 1914 to 1 November 1915, and later served at St. John’s and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, St. John’s Wood, London, from October to December 1916, and at Michie Hospital, Queen’s Gate, London, from October 1917 to March 1918. She married Captain John Crawford Matthew Hay, Royal Air Force, on 16 May 1918, and they had a daughter, Gillian Monica Hay

Miss Gillian Monica Hay was the daughter of John Crawford Matthew Hay and Mary Monica Hay, and enrolled as a member of 26 Detachment, Hampshire, British Red Cross Society, on 12 October 1942.

Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Enrolment.