Seven: Warrant Officer/Temporary Captain A. E. Sterley, South African Air Force, late South African Service Corps

Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; South Africa Union Medal, E.II.R. (53) officially impressed; British War Medal 1914-20 (Dvr. A. E. Sterley. S.A.S.C.); Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, these last three officially impressed ‘P.36 A. E. Sterley’; Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S.& G.C., G.V.R. (36 Flt. Sgt. A. E. Sterley S.A.A.F.), mounted as worn in the above order, last officially renamed, generally very fine (7) £200-£300

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2003.

Arthur Everitt Sterley enlisted in the South African Service Corps in October 1917, and was an early recruit in the newly formed South African Air Force. During the Second World War he served in the S.A.A.F. as a Warrant Officer, but held the Temporary rank of Captain in 1942.

Sold with transcribed copied service records for both periods of service.