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THE BENTLEY PRIORY BATTLE OF BRITAIN TRUST APPEAL CHARITY AUCTION 48 48 Uniform and Documentation Relating to Air Vice-Marshal A. Gray, C.B., M.C., Royal Air Force - The recipient’s No. 1 Uniform, showing the rank of Air Vice Marshal, complete with RAF wings, and medal ribands, with trousers - R.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering the period 30.11.1923-4.11.1941 - Bestowal Document for the C.B., named to Air Commodore Alexander Gray, and dated 8.6.1944 - Two Mentioned in Despatches Certificate, dated 25.11.1943 and 14.1.1944 - Various photographs of the recipient, including ones showing the recipient separately with Montgomery and Churchill - Various letters to the recipient, including one from Lord Mountbatten of Burma, dated 16.10.1947, and a hand-written one from Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, dated 6.12.1947 - Invitation to the recipient for the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations of R.A.F. Marham, 31.8.1966, with souvenir programmes - The recipient’s R.A.F. Wings, together with various badges and buttons - Two books from the recipient’s library: Monoplanes and Biplanes; and The Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War - Photograph of the recipient with H.M. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth - Photograph of HM Queen Elizabeth inspecting members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force at RAF Mildenhall (lot) £300-500 WWW.SPINK.COM
September 6, 2012 - LONDON Air Vice-Marshal A. Gray C.B. London Gazette 8.6.1944 Air Commodore Alexander Gray, M.C., Royal Air Force. M.C. London Gazette 27.10.1917 2nd Lt. (T./Capt.) Alexander Gray, Arg. & Suth’d Highrs., and R.F.C. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He took part in many successful operations over the enemy’s lines, in over twenty of which he acted as leader. On one occasion, when leading a bombing raid, his formation was heavily attacked by enemy aeroplanes. He shot one of them down, and brought back the whole of his formation safely. He also led a successful raid on an enemy aerodrome, and on several occasions obtained valuable photographs. He has accounted for two enemy aeroplanes with his front gun, and always showed great coolness, ability, and resource.’ Air Vice-Marshal Alexander Gray, C.B., M.C., born Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, September 1896, and educated at Glasgow Technical College; on the outbreak of the Great War he declined a Commission and enlisted as a Private in the Highland Light Infantry, as ‘that was my best chance of seeing some quick fighting.’ Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in early 1916, serving with No.55 Reconnaissance Squadron. Twice wounded, by a shell splinter to the right hand, 14.1.1917, and by a gun shot wound to the right hand, 1.3.1917, in December 1917, having been awarded the M.C., Gray was appointed Flight Commander of the Squadron. In October 1922 Gray married Mrs. Leonora Mary Baxter, the widow of Second Lieutenant E.F. Baxter, V.C., with whom he had two daughters. The following year he was posted to No.12 Squadron, based at RAF Northolt, before moving to Malta in November 1928, where much of his flying for the next year was testing aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm at Hal Far and the seaplane base. At the start of the Second World War he was promoted Group Captain and appointed to the Station Command of RAF Manston, a front-line airfield in the Battle of Britain. Subsequently, as Air Commodore, he was posted to India in 1942, where he also visited the forward areas of Burma. After the War he was appointed, in April 1947, Air-Officer Commanding Air Headquarters at Habbaninyah, Iraq, with the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. He retired from the Royal Air Force in 1949, and died 16.5.1980. 109
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