Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant H. E. A. Waring, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, a Nieuport pilot with 1 Squadron, who was shot down and wounded by the German ‘Ace’ and Blue Max Winner - Leutnant Max Ritter von Muller, 19 August 1917, becoming his 24th Victory out of a total of 36. Waring was taken prisoner of war, and interned at Schweidnitz

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. E. A. Waring. R.A.F.) generally very fine or better (2) £300-£400

Harold Ernest Arthur Waring was born in Godalming, Surrey, and was the son of H. C. Waring, a Gold Setter. He was educated at Holloway County Grammar School, and was reading History at Exeter College, Oxford at the outbreak of war. He left his studies to join the Royal Flying Corps as a Private, aged 18 and 4 months, in February 1916. Waring was discharged to a commission as a Temporary Second Lieutenant (on probation) in April 1917. He was confirmed in that rank in July of the same year, and having carried out training as a pilot was posted for operational service with 1 Squadron (Nieuports) in France, 31 July 1917.

Waring was one of six Nieuports tasked with escorting six F.E.’s on a bombing raid, 19 August 1917. The formation was attacked by a force of 40 Albatross aircraft, and after a dog fight of five minutes Waring’s aircraft was hit in the engine and the petrol tank. He was also wounded, and crash landed near Menin. Waring had been shot down by the Blue Max Winner - Leutnant Max Ritter von Muller. He was the German Ace’s 24th Victory out of a total of 36.

Waring was taken prisoner of war, and interned at Schweidnitz. He was repatriated at Leith, 6 Jan 1919. Waring left the service after the war, completed his degree, and was employed as an Assistant Inspector of Taxes, Inland Revenue in 1921. In later life he resided at 38 Heathbank Raod, Cheadle Hulme, and died in August 1954.

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