Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1925 (328172. L.A.C. E. M. Piper. R.A.F.) remnants of lacquer, very fine £1,000-£1,400

Edward Maurice Piper was born in born in Battersea, London, in 1902. He joined the Royal Air Force as a Boy in 1919, and was remustered as an A.C.2 in March the following year. Piper advanced to Leading Aircraftman in April 1922, and served with 5 Squadron in India from March 1923. He died ‘at sea, 5 November 1926’ (service papers refer).