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A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 808

A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air

Schätzpreis
500 £ - 600 £
ca. 669 $ - 803 $
Zuschlagspreis:
400 £
ca. 535 $
Beschreibung:

A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air Force between the Wars (1919-1939) formed by Group Captain JE Barker Five: Wing Commander T. E. W. Browne, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Air Service, who flew as a Handley Page pilot during the Great War, and narrowly averted death when he crash landed returning from a long range bombing raid to Frankfurt, 21 August 1918. He later published his memoirs The Skyline is a promise, which not only cover his Great War and Second War service, but also chronicle his time as Headmaster of the Cadet School Ship H.M.S. Conway British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. E. W. Browne. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Wg. Cdr. T. E. W. Browne. R.A.F.V.R.) mounted for display, together with five related mounted miniature awards, extremely fine (5) £500-600 Footnote Thomas Ethelred Wilby Browne was born at 26 York Street, Heigham, Norwich, in October 1899. He was educated at the City of Norwich School, and commissioned Probationary Flight Officer, Royal Naval Air Service, in September 1917. After an initial posting to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Browne was posted to the Flying Training School at R.N.A.S. Chingford. He flew his first solo in a D.H.6 in February 1918, and carried out further training in 504K Avros at Fairlop. Browne was posted to Cranwell in March 1918, and after some preliminary training on B.E.’s he was posted to Scout Flight for fighter training. This did not last long, as he was subsequently posted to the Handley Page flight. After attending courses at the Bombing and Gunnery School, Eastchurch, and on Night Flying and Navigation at Stonehenge, Browne was posted as pilot for operational service with 16 (Naval) Squadron (Handley Pages), Ochey, France, in June 1918. Operating as part of Trenchard’s Independent Force in France, the Squadron was engaged on long range bombing operations over Germany until the Armistice. Browne describes one of these long range raids in his book The skyline is a promise: ‘My observer for my longest raid, on the railway yards at Frankfurt on August 21st, 1918, was a young Canadian, J W Adams.... he was a good navigator and he laid our course faultlessly on that moonlight night to take us over to the Rhine Valley and then down the faint silver ribbon of the river winding northwards to our target. To the jet pilot of today we would have looked uncomfortably primitive sitting side by side in the open cockpit hauled through the night by our two Rolls Royce engines at a mere seventy miles per hour. But for us there was more than a tinge of pride in taking the biggest aircraft then known carrying the heaviest load over the longest distance into enemy territory. For the actual bombing run Adams had to crawl through a very small opening into the front cockpit the sides of which were barely waist high, lean over the open bomb sight, and direct me over the target by waving his arms. There was during all this a considerable concentration of searchlight beams, red flashes, dull woofs, and a few unpleasantly loud cracks. At last the run was over and I could make a steep diving sideslip to take us out of the beams and the barrage as quickly as possible.... From our base to Frankfurt and back would be hardly an hour’s run for a modern jet, but we had been flying for nearly six when we picked up the light which told us we were only about fifteen miles from home.... We were only about 500 feet above the ground when there was a hesitant cough from the starboard engine and it died. I opened up the port engine to full revs and began to make a turn to get over the thick woods into the open field below, but half way through the turn that engine too spluttered to a stop.... I decided to attempt a landing on the near side of the wood where there was a limited stretch of flat ground rather than try to stretch my glide and run the risk of stalling in an attempt to reach the field on the far side. Hauling o

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 808
Auktion:
Datum:
06.12.2017 - 07.12.2017
Auktionshaus:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
Beschreibung:

A Collection of Awards to the Royal Air Force between the Wars (1919-1939) formed by Group Captain JE Barker Five: Wing Commander T. E. W. Browne, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and Royal Naval Air Service, who flew as a Handley Page pilot during the Great War, and narrowly averted death when he crash landed returning from a long range bombing raid to Frankfurt, 21 August 1918. He later published his memoirs The Skyline is a promise, which not only cover his Great War and Second War service, but also chronicle his time as Headmaster of the Cadet School Ship H.M.S. Conway British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. T. E. W. Browne. R.A.F.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Wg. Cdr. T. E. W. Browne. R.A.F.V.R.) mounted for display, together with five related mounted miniature awards, extremely fine (5) £500-600 Footnote Thomas Ethelred Wilby Browne was born at 26 York Street, Heigham, Norwich, in October 1899. He was educated at the City of Norwich School, and commissioned Probationary Flight Officer, Royal Naval Air Service, in September 1917. After an initial posting to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Browne was posted to the Flying Training School at R.N.A.S. Chingford. He flew his first solo in a D.H.6 in February 1918, and carried out further training in 504K Avros at Fairlop. Browne was posted to Cranwell in March 1918, and after some preliminary training on B.E.’s he was posted to Scout Flight for fighter training. This did not last long, as he was subsequently posted to the Handley Page flight. After attending courses at the Bombing and Gunnery School, Eastchurch, and on Night Flying and Navigation at Stonehenge, Browne was posted as pilot for operational service with 16 (Naval) Squadron (Handley Pages), Ochey, France, in June 1918. Operating as part of Trenchard’s Independent Force in France, the Squadron was engaged on long range bombing operations over Germany until the Armistice. Browne describes one of these long range raids in his book The skyline is a promise: ‘My observer for my longest raid, on the railway yards at Frankfurt on August 21st, 1918, was a young Canadian, J W Adams.... he was a good navigator and he laid our course faultlessly on that moonlight night to take us over to the Rhine Valley and then down the faint silver ribbon of the river winding northwards to our target. To the jet pilot of today we would have looked uncomfortably primitive sitting side by side in the open cockpit hauled through the night by our two Rolls Royce engines at a mere seventy miles per hour. But for us there was more than a tinge of pride in taking the biggest aircraft then known carrying the heaviest load over the longest distance into enemy territory. For the actual bombing run Adams had to crawl through a very small opening into the front cockpit the sides of which were barely waist high, lean over the open bomb sight, and direct me over the target by waving his arms. There was during all this a considerable concentration of searchlight beams, red flashes, dull woofs, and a few unpleasantly loud cracks. At last the run was over and I could make a steep diving sideslip to take us out of the beams and the barrage as quickly as possible.... From our base to Frankfurt and back would be hardly an hour’s run for a modern jet, but we had been flying for nearly six when we picked up the light which told us we were only about fifteen miles from home.... We were only about 500 feet above the ground when there was a hesitant cough from the starboard engine and it died. I opened up the port engine to full revs and began to make a turn to get over the thick woods into the open field below, but half way through the turn that engine too spluttered to a stop.... I decided to attempt a landing on the near side of the wood where there was a limited stretch of flat ground rather than try to stretch my glide and run the risk of stalling in an attempt to reach the field on the far side. Hauling o

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 808
Auktion:
Datum:
06.12.2017 - 07.12.2017
Auktionshaus:
Dix Noonan Webb
16 Bolton St, Mayfair
London, W1J 8BQ
Großbritannien und Nordirland
auctions@dnw.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7016 1700
+44 (0)20 7016 1799
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