Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Victory Medal awarded to Second Lieutenant T. Jarvie, Royal Flying Corps, late Corporal, Royal Engineers, who was killed in a training flight at Bolton on Swale on 10 December 1917

Victory Medal 1914-19 (32295 Cpl. T. Jarvie. R.E.) extremely fine £70-£90

Thomas Russell Jarvie was born on 26 April 1891 and attested for the Royal Engineers in 1914. He served with them as a despatch rider during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 April 1915, and is recorded as being twice wounded. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 29 May 1917, he was killed whilst the pilot of a DH-4 aircraft in a training incident on 10 September 1917 – serving as an Instructor with 46 Training Squadron, he was flying over the Catterick area when his aircraft stalled, spun, and dived to the ground at Bolton on Swale. The other occupant of the aircraft, his pupil Second Lieutenant Stephen Wilkins, was injured but survived. Jarvie is buried at Carluke (Wilton) Cemetery, Lanarkshire.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.

Sold also with a photograph of Captain G. W. Mapplebeck, D.S.O., Royal Flying Corps, mounted on card; together with copied research detailing the recipient’s Great War flying career.