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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 14

A 'Civil Division' M.B.E. Group of Four to R.E.8 Pilot, Major E.C. Stonehouse, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, Late Royal Army Service Corps, Wounded in Action, 25.2.1918
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver and enamel, in Royal Mint case of issue
b) 1914-15 Star (Capt. E.C. Stonehouse. A.S.C.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (Major E.C. Stonehouse. R.A.F.), nearly extremely fine, together with the recipient's related miniature awards (4)

M.B.E. London Gazette 13.6.1959 Eric Childe Stonehouse, Esq., J.P., Chairman of Committee, No. 127 (Wakefield) Squadron, Air Training Corps.

Major Eric Childe Stonehouse, M.B.E. (1886-1967); a native of Wakefield; educated at Sedbergh School; commissioned Captain 1st West Riding Brigade Company, Army Service Corps (T.F.), 16.6.1910; advanced Major, Royal Army Service Corps, 1.6.1916; seconded for duty with the Royal Flying Corps, 4.8.1917; after training was posted as a pilot to 42 Squadron (R.E.8's), on the Austro-Italian front; he was wounded in action, whilst flying B5099, 25.2.1918; after a period of recuperation in hospital he returned to operational flying with 16 Squadron (R.E.8's), Complain L'Abbe, July 1918; posted as Major (Flying) to 'Room 426, Air Ministry', October 1918; posted as a Flight Commander to 12 Squadron (R.E.8's), Duren, Germany, March 1919; relinquished Temporary Commission, 18.1.1921; re-engaged for service during the Second War as Acting Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 1.2.1941.

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