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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 756

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to the Station Warrant Officer of R.A.F. Hawkinge, W. S. A. Stewart, M.B.E., Royal Air Force

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, 2nd Type, Member's breast Badge; 1914 Star, 1 clasp, 5th Aug - 22nd Nov 1914; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1953; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R, very fine (8)

William Sidney Arthur Stewart enlisted to join the Royal Flying Corps and disembarked in France on 16 August 1914. His service number was 630. He started the Great War as an Air Mechanic 1st Class and by the end of the war he appears on the RAF Muster Roll as a Chief Master Mechanic. He was promoted to Warrant Officer Class 1 on 15 May 1934 and on 3 February 1937, he was appointed Station Warrant Officer R.A.F. Hawkinge, Folkestone, Kent. He was awarded his M.B.E. in 1939.

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