Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War A.F.C. group of seven awarded to Flight Lieutenant H. D. Moseley, Royal Air Force, sometime attached South African Air Force, who also received a Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

Air Force Cross, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1961, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, the last officially named ‘207335 H. D. Moseley’; together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn together with the Q.C.V.S. oak leaf emblem on navy blue riband after the medals, nearly extremely fine (7) £1,600-£2,000

A.F.C. London Gazette 10 June 1961.

Q.C.V.S. London Gazette 2 January 1956.

Harold Douglas Moseley was born in Birmingham on 29 March 1921 and served during the Second World War with both the Royal Air Force and subsequently on secondment to the South African Air Force, most probably with 12 Squadron, who served in East Africa and the Western Desert equipped with the Canberra Bomber. He was commissioned into the General Duties Branch, Royal Air Force on 12 January 1945, and was advanced Flight Lieutenant on 30 June 1952 for subsequent transfer to the Fighter Control Branch. Awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air in 1956, and the Air Force Cross in June 1961, he transferred to the Retired List in April 1962, and was subsequently employed at Birmingham Airport. He died in Solihull in December 1995.

Sold with the recipient’s Second War identity tags ‘207335 Moseley H, CE’; named Royal Air Force Rating card; Birmingham Airport Identity card; two South African Air Force Pilots Wings, one the padded version removed from uniform, the other a flat version with three button poppers to reverse; a Royal Air Force metal sidecap badge and cloth badge; two Royal Air Force golfing medals, dated 1954 and 1960; various other ephemera, including a photograph of the recipient in uniform on his wedding day; and copied research.