A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Pair: Lieutenant (Observer) E. B. Maule, No. 20 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, and Highland Light Infantry, killed in aerial combat on 6 February 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Edward Barry Maule); illuminated memorial scroll; embroidered R.F.C. wings on a cloth panel; two original pre-war photographs of recipient; and five related newspaper cuttings, nearly extremely fine (3) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Edward Barry Maule was born in 1893, at Huntingdonshire, and educated at Uppingham School. He served with the 18th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry , with whom he was wounded on 3 March 1916, subsequently being attached to the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer. Lieutenant Maule was killed in action on 6 February 1917, whilst on a photographic mission in an FE2d, which was attacked by six enemy aircraft of Jasta 8. The plane in which he was flying was forced down ‘under control’, the Pilot (2nd Lieutenant M. E. Woods) being injured and taken prisoner of war, and Maule himself being killed. He is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Their plane was claimed by Oblt. Fr. von Esebeck.