Medals from the Collection of the Late Eric Smith (Part II)

Three: Temporary Sub. Lieutenant (A.) L. A. C. Michell, Fleet Air Arm, who died on active service while borne on the books of the R.N. Air Station Condor in November 1941, but who was in fact on attachment to 767 Squadron

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, in damaged remnants of original card forwarding box, the Navy Accounts label inscribed ‘DNA Wills 11604/41’, together with related Admiralty condolence slip in the name of ‘Temporary Sub. Lieutenant (A.) Lawrence Arthur Chicheley Michell, R.N.V.R.’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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Lawrence Arthur Chicheley Michell died on active service while borne on the books of the R.N. Air Station Condor at Arbroath on 24 November 1941, but actually on attachment to No. 767 Squadron, a deck-landing training unit. He had been appointed a Temporary Sub. Lieutenant (A.) in the previous August, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lee-on-Solent Memorial.