Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Church Memorial Tablet to Second Lieutenant D. S. A. Cheers, Royal Air Force

Memorial Tablet, 655mm x 124mm, bronze, inscribed ‘Donald Heriot Anson Cheers, 2nd. Lieut: Royal Air Force - Accidentally killed when flying at Gullane on 17th. April, 1918 - aged 17 years.’, with six small fixing holes around edge, original white paint from inscription almost all lost, otherwise good condition £80-£100

Donald Heriot Anson Cheers was born at Waldegrave Park, Twickenham, Middlesex, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corp. Posted to 2nd Training Depot Station at Gullane, East Lothian, he was accidentally killed in a flying accident there on 17 April 1918, when flying an Avro 504J, and is buried in Edinburgh (Comely Bank) Cemetery.