Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant J. Tozer-Mitchell, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force

British War and Victory Medals, with later M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut., R.A.F.) the first with official corrections, otherwise very fine (2) £80-100

M.I.D. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Josiah Tozer-Mitchell was a South African from Cape Town and enlisted as an Air Mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service. He served with No. 2 Wing in the Eastern Mediterranean from 31 January 1916, and aboard H.M.S. Pegasus, Seaplane Carrier, from 22 October 1917. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 1 April 1918 and served subsequently aboard H.M. Ships Vindictive, Furious and Pegasus, between November 1918 and March 1919.