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

Pair: Second Lieutenat (Pilot) H. T. Eyres, No. 101 Squadron, Royal Air Force, and Queen’s Regiment, killed when returning from a night bombing operation on 9 November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut., R.A.F.); together with memorial plaque (Henry Tarrant Eyres); and Queen’s Regiment officers collar badge, all contained in an attractive contemporary inlaid mahogany frame, extremely fine (4) £250-300

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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Henry Tarrant Eyres, a native of Bath, Somerset was born in 1899, and educated at St Edwards School, Bath and R.M.A. Sandhurst. He was killed on 9 November 1918 whilst landing in an FE2b, after returning from a night bombing mission. He is buried in St Erme Communal Cemetery Extension, Aisne, France. The Observer, 2nd Lieutenant G. E. Williams was wounded.

The following is extracted from his obituary, published in The Roll of Honour, by The Marquis De Ruvigny: ‘...Served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from September 1918, where he was attached to a night bombing squadron, constantly flying backwards and forwards in the darkness across the German lines, attacking points of strategic importance, and helping to throw the German transport and supports into a hopeless condition of confusion, and was killed in action while flying at Roman Camp, St Erme, near Laon, 9 November 1918, through a collision while attempting to land after having been on a night bombing expedition...’