orders, decorations, campaign medals and militaria - Spink

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Four: Flying Officer E.T.H. Ellis, Royal Air Force
1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. E.T.H. Ellis. R.E.), a post
1921 issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.
E.T.H. Ellis. R.A.F.); India General Service 1908-35,
G.V.R., two clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919,
Waziristan 1919-21 (F-Offcr. E.T.H. Ellis, R.A.F.),
last officially re-impressed, generally very fine (4)
£200-240
Flying Officer Eric Thomas Haulton Ellis born 1895, son
of Major T.J. Ellis, a planter in Ambala, India; commissioned
Second Lieutenant (South Midland) Royal Engineers
(Territorial Force), 3.10.1914; served during the Great War
with the Royal Engineers in the French Theatre of War from,
March 1915; Lieutenant 1.6.1916; attached Royal Flying
Corps as an Observer, 22.6.1916; posted to 17 Squadron (Be
2d’s), Kirec, Salonika, 1.8.1916, (his service record
erroneously gives him as invalided and struck off the
squadron’s strength the same day; the squadron War Diaries
list ‘E.T.H. Ellis’ as regularly flying with the Squadron from
that date onwards; there is no other ‘Ellis’ given in the R.A.F.
Lists for that period, therefore one can assume that his service
record provides a human transcription error); the squadron
was mainly tasked with reconnaissance and Army cooperation,
Ellis spent the first few weeks of August, as part of
“A” Flight, taking photographs of the positions around
‘Horseshoe Hill’ and the Struma front; he continued in a
similar capacity through to December; having re-mustered as
a Pilot, Ellis was serving with 47 Squadron (Armstrong
Whitworth’s), Macedonia, from June 1917; he flew with the
squadron mainly on reconnaissance and artillery spotting
duties; Ellis was also employed on bombing raids, 6.10.1917,
‘4-16lb bombs. One Bomb on Durbali. One Bomb on Kara
Pazarli. Two Bombs on small detachment of enemy infantry
at Fork Rd. 700yds S. of second “A” in Kara. Troops
scattered and were machine gunned. Enemy infantry in wood
W. of Gevzekli.’ (Air 29/613 refers); posted to 114
Squadron, India, 24.11.1917, prior to transferring to 31
Squadron (B.E. 2e’s), India, at the start of 1918; whilst
serving with the latter he was part of the detachment at Sibi,
Baluchistan, tasked with dealing with the hostilities against
the Marri Tribe; he flew in reconnaissance operations over
the Marri Hills and the Sibi Plain; in 1919 Ellis returned to
47 Squadron, and was posted with the squadron to the
Crimea in support of the White Russians; in October of that
year the squadron became “A” Squadron, R.A.F. Mission,
South Russia; Ellis was demobilised 22.2.1920; he returned
to India after service and was commissioned into the Army in
India Reserve of Officers.
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A Well Documented Great War Sopwith Pup
Fighter Pilot’s Group of Seven to Lieutenant,
Later Group Captain, A.J. Warwick, 46 Squadron,
Royal Flying Corps and Gloucestershire Regiment
1914-15 Star (3532 Pte. A.J. Warwick. 9-Lond. R.);
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A.J. Warwick.
R.F.C.); 1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Defence and
War Medals, generally nearly very fine or better, with
the following contemporary related items:
- Two Army Book 425 Pilot’s Flying Log Books,
covering the dates 18.11.1920- 21.11.1924 and
22.11.1924- 15.4.1930, both with repairs to spine
- Card box of issue for Second War awards, addressed
to ‘Mrs. A.J. Warwick, 56 Penn Hill Ave, Parkstone,
Dorset’, with named enclosure slip
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Group Captain A.J. Warwick
- The recipient’s three Identity Tags, two as Second
Lieutenant, 6th Gloucestershire Regiment and the
other as Private 9th London Regiment; cloth R.A.F.
Insignia; and photographic images of recipient during
both Wars (lot)
£300-500
Group Captain Alwyn John Warwick, born 1898; served
during the Great War as Private, 9th Battalion London
Regiment, in the French Theatre of War, from 14.2.1915;
commissioned Temporary Lieutenant, Gloucestershire
Regiment, 25.10.1915; attached Royal Flying Corps,
28.4.1917, and posted as Pilot to 46 (Fighter) Squadron
(Sopwith Pups), Le Hameau, 1.10.1917; he flew in many
sorties with the squadron including 11.10.1917, when in
concert with other aircraft from the squadron he ‘engaged Six
E.A. seen. One E.A. driven down damaged’ (Squadron
Record Book refers); the squadron converted to Camels the
following month and added ground attacks to their duties;
Warwick is mentioned and pictured in No Parachute - A
Fighter Pilot in World War I, by Air Vice-Marshal A.S.G. Lee,
who was a contemporary pilot and ace of 46 Squadron; post
war service included with 216 Squadron in the Middle East,
flying passengers and mail between Egypt and Palestine,
1922-24; after a period of illness he was appointed to the
command of ‘C’ Flight, 32 (Fighter) Squadron, November
1926; advanced Wing Commander 1.7.1938; Temporary
Group Captain 1.12.1940; died 10.11.1946, whilst
employed with the Control Commission (B.E.) in Germany,
and is buried in the Munster Heath Cemetery.