A Collection of Medals to the Royal Naval Air Service and Armoured Car Squadrons

Three: Petty Officer Mechanic H. G. Gale, Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (F.758 A.M.1, R.N.A.S.); British War and Victory Medals (F.758 P.O.M., R.N.A.S.) good very fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Naval Air Service and Armoured Car Squadrons.

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Herbert George Gale was born in Warsash, Hampshire, on 20 October 1893. A Motor Engineer by occupation, he enlisted into the R.N.A.S. as an Air Mechanic Grade 1 on 16 November 1914. He served at Pembroke III and President II at Crystal Palace and Dunkirk, then at Daedalus at Dunkirk, being advanced to Petty Officer Mechanic on 30 April 1917. Sold with copied service paper.