Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Wing Commander H. A. Anson, Royal Air Force, late Brecknock Battalion, South Wales Borderers, and Royal Flying Corps

1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. H. A. Anson. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. H. A. Anson. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals, very fine (5) £260-300

M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919, 5 June 1919, and `12 January 1920.

Henry Adelbert Anson was born on 21 December 1895, son of the Hon. Francis Anson, descended from the Lichfield Barony. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Brecknock Battalion, South Wales Borderers, on 26 August 1914, becoming Lieutenant on 15 October 1916. He served in Aden from 16 December 1914, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, becoming a pilot in No. 30 Squadron in Mesopotamia and Iraq, and later commanding Detached Flight No. 63 Squadron, Kasvin, Persia. Flying B.E. 2c’s and R.E. 8’s, he was engaged on many reconnaissance, contact and bombing patrols, as detailed in the numerous accompanying copied reports for the period November 1917 to April 1919; these include one combat report for 3 May 1918, when his R.E. 8 was attacked by an enemy ‘double strutter scout’ over Kirkuk but without result. Wing Commander Anson died on 16 November 1955.

Sold with the above-mentioned combat and patrol reports and other copied research.