Orders, Decorations and Medals

A rare Great War D.F.C., D.C.M. group of six awarded to 2nd Lieutenant W. C. Treen, Royal Field Artillery, attached Royal Air Force
Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R.; Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (794 Sjt., 1/3 S.Mid. Bde. R.F.A.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (794 Cpl., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut., R.A.F.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (835058 Sjt., D.C.M., R.F.A.) the group court mounted, good very fine (6)

D.C.M. London Gazette 11 March, 1916: ‘For consistently good and valuable work both in instruction and in working telephone lines since his arrival at the front.’
D.F.C. London Gazette 8 February, 1919, jointly with 2nd Lieut. G. A. Ballantyne: ‘These officers displayed conspicuous courage and cool presence of mind on 9th October, when they were attacked by seven Fokker biplanes. At the outset the pilot (2nd Lieut. Ballantyne) received a bullet in his arm, and 2nd Lieut. Treen, his observer, was wounded in the head and had one knuckle of his right hand shot off; at the same time the woodwork between these two officers caught fire. Lieut. Treen, having beaten out the fire with his hands, engaged the enemy machines, and, aided by the consummate skill with which Lieut. Ballantyne - wounded though he was - manœuvred the machine, succeeded in shooting down one in flames.’
A superb immediate award D.F.C. and seemingly one of only a few D.F.C., D.C.M. combinations won in the Great War.