Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

An Iraq 1920s operations D.F.M. group of eleven awarded to Group Captain F. Evans, Royal Air Force

Distinguished Flying Medal, G.V.R. (F.S. F. Evans (50869), Duplicate, R.A.F.), in its Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (A.M. 1, 50869, R.A.F., Duplicate); British War and Victory Medals (A.M. 1 (50869), R.A.F., Duplicate); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (F.S. (50869), R.A.F.), another Duplicate in its modern day box of issue; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935, in its card box of issue; Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (F.S. (50869), R.A.F., Duplicate); King Feisal’s War Medal generally extremely fine (11) £600-800

D.F.M. London Gazette 6 June 1924: ‘For operations in Iraq, 1922.’

Frank Evans, who was born in December 1895, served as an Air Mechanic out in France in the Great War, prior to his D.F.M.-winning exploits in Iraq as a Flight Sergeant in the early 1920s. Appointed a Warrant Officer in May 1934, he served briefly with No. 47 (Bomber) Squadron in Khartoum and gained advancement to Flying Officer in May 1938 while attending a Technical Training School back in the U.K. The advent of hostilities witnessed his promotion to Flight Lieutenant and he ended the War in the rank of Wing Commander. Evans was placed on the Retired List as a Group Captain in late 1949.

NB
The recipient’s original awards were lost ‘as a result of enemy action’ and his duplicates were claimed via R.A.F.A. shortly before his death.