Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Wing Commander E. F. Haylock, Royal Air Force

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut., R.F.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (F/O., R.A.F.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Iraq, Active Service Medal 1924-38, no clasp, these unnamed, first three with edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (7) £280-320

Edward Fowles Haylock was born on 21 December 1897. Commissioned a Lieutenant Aeroplane Officer, R.A.F. on 1 April 1918 and promoted to Acting Captain in August 1918. Promoted to Flying Officer Observer with No. 56 Squadron in the Middle East in September 1921. With No. 1 Squadron, Hunaidi, Iraq, April 1923; 208 Army Co-op Squadron, Ismailia, October, 1924. Promoted to Flight Lieutenant in March 1928. Attended Staff College in January 1932. Appointed to the Air Staff, Iraq, December 1933; Air Staff, Western Area, April 1935, and to Coastal Command Air Staff, January 1936, being promoted to Squadron Leader in October 1936. As such he was with No. 16 Recce Group Coastal Command Air Staff from October 1938 and after attaining the rank of Wing Commander in July 1939, retired from the General Duties Branch, R.A.F. on 25 April 1943. With copied service notes.