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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 459

Three: Second Lieutenant C. P. King, Royal Air Force, formerly Armoured Cars Division, Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (F. 2128. C. P. King. A.M.1. R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. C. P. King. R.A.F.), good very fine (3)

Claude Percival King was born on 21 February 1891 at Winsdor and first took work on the Great Western Railway in the Paddington Station Registration Office from June 1905. King also worked as a tester & demonstrator for the Premier Cycle Co., Coventry in 1911 and as a motor engineer in Windsor from August 1911-June 1913, before being assistant editor at John Warwillow Ltd in Birmingham, from February-November 1914. Having enlisted into the Royal Naval Air Service in November 1914, he was a mechanic for the Armoured Car Division from December 1915-October 1916. Given the trenches across the Western Front, this unit was sent up to North Russia and fought alongside the Russian Empire on the Eastern Front. King was Leading Mechanic in charge of the Magnet Department for R.N.A.S. Machines from December 1916.

He joined the Royal Air Force as a 2nd Lieutenant in April 1918, his wife at that time living at 19 The Cloisters, Windsor, and flew as a Pilot with No. 228 Squadron. By 1939, he was a Chief Inspector for an Insurance Company living at 86 Tankerton Road, Whitstable.

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