Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (C18299 F/O W. J. Bassett); together with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet ‘W. J. Bassett, R87503’, the reverse engraved ‘“Good Luck” P.M.O’s, Jan. 1942’, edge bruising to reverse rim, otherwise about extremely fine £50-£70

William John Bassett was born in Redruth, Cornwall, on 6 December 1906 and having emigrated to Canada attested for Lord Strathcona’s Horse at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 4 June 1927. Discharged by purchase on 4 June 1928, he next attested for the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps at Winnipeg on 5 June 1929, and having been advanced Staff Sergeant on 15 April 1939 transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force on 15 November 1940. He served overseas with the R.C.A.F. Medical Service from 1942 to 1944, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 August 1946. He retied on 1949.

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