Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Rocket Apparatus Volunteer Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, 2nd type reverse (Matthew H. Knaggs) in case of issue, extremely fine £100-£140

Matthew Harrington Knaggs was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, on 10 March 1898 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service as an Air Mechanic Second Class on 22 February 1917. He transferred to the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, and served overseas during the Great War with 67 Wing, Headquarters Adriatic Group in Italy. He transferred to the Reserve on 20 March 1919. He later enrolled in the Bridlington Life Saving Apparatus Company on 31 March 1926, and was awarded his Long Service Medal in 1946. He later became a taxi driver in Bridlington, and died in Scarborough in 1986.

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