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Eighteenth Session, Commencing at 2.30 Pm ORDERS, DECORATIONS
Eighteenth Session, Commencing at 2.30 pm ORDERS, DECORATIONS & MEDALS BRITISH SINGLES 4932* South Africa Medal 1879, with modifi ed suspender with silver suspension clasp engraved 1879 & 1880. Corpl. P.Besserve. Natal Native Contgt. Engraved. Incorrect ribbon, a few small edge nicks, otherwise nicely toned good very fi ne. $200 4930* The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Offi cer (OBE type 2) (Civil) breast badge. In case of issue, with instructions for wearing card, toned uncirculated. $150 4931 Crimea Medal 1854-56, - clasp - Sebastopol. E.Green 11th Regt. 3 Batn. Engraved and renamed. Light scuffi ng and hairlines, otherwise nearly very fi ne. $100 4933* Egypt Medal, 1882-89, undated reverse, - clasp - Suakin 1885. Pte C.Gould T.Supr R. Engraved. Renamed, contact marks in fi elds, otherwise fi ne. $150 418 4934 Khedives Star, 1884-6, reverse impressed Berks 950. Very fi ne. $150 4937* India Medal 1895-1902, (VRI), - two clasps - Relief of Chitral 1895, Tirah 1897-98. Cook Sudh Singh 34th Bl Infy. Engraved in running script. Some contact marks and one 4935* time cleaned, otherwise very fi ne. British South Africa Company's Medal, 1890-97, Rhodesia $120 1896 reverse. Tpr. A.J.Browne. B.S.A.P. Renamed, engraved. Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection. Contact marks, otherwise good very fi ne. $150 Ex M.M.Andrews Collection. 4936 Africa General Service Medal 1902-56, (EVIIR), - clasp - Somaliland 1902-04, Somaliland 1908-10. 175847. F.Hussey, Sto. H.M.S.Fox. Impressed. Hairlines, otherwise good very fi ne. $120 Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection. -
The Aircraft Flown by 24 Squadron
The Aircraft Flown by 24 Squadron 24 Squadron RAF is currently the Operational Training Squadron for the Lockheed C130J Hercules, based at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Apart from a short period as a cadre in 1919, they have been continuously operating for the RFC & RAF since 1915. They started off as a Scout (Fighter) Squadron, developed into a ground attack unit, became a communications specialist with a subsidiary training role, and in 1940 became a transport squadron. I have discovered records of 100 different types being allocated or used by the Squadron, some were trial aircraft used for a few days and others served for several years, and in the case of the Lockheed Hercules decades! In addition many different marks of the same type were operated, these include; 5 Marks of the Avro 504 1 civil and 4 Military marks of the Douglas DC3/ Dakota All 7 marks of the Lockheed Hudson used by the RAF 4 marks of the Lockheed Hercules 5 marks of the Bristol F2B fighter 3 Marks of the Vickers Wellington XXIV Squadron has operated aircraft designed by 39 separate concerns, built in Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, and the USA. The largest numbers from one maker/ designer are the Airco and De Havilland DH series totalling 22 types or marks, followed by 12 types or marks from Lockheed, and 11 from Avro. The total number of aircraft operated if split down into different marks comes to 137no from the Airspeed “Envoy” to the Wicko “Warferry” Earliest Days 24 Squadron was formed at Hounslow as an offshoot of 17 Squadron on the 1st September 1915 initially under the command of Capt A G Moore. -
OE Fighter Aces of the Great War by Bill Bowden and Michael Partridge
OLD EASTBOURNIAN OE Fighter Aces of the Great War by Bill Bowden and Michael Partridge A replica of an original 1918 painting by artist Jack Pelling, which shows Gordon Fox Rule in his DH9 when he shot down two enemy Albatross aircraft n the course of research into the lives of those who man in the world’. In 1915 the Royal Flying Corps served, and those who died, in the war of 1914–18, required him to compile an instruction manual for I we found no fewer than seven Old Eastbournians young fighter pilots; Fighting in the Air was the result. who qualified as ‘aces’. This is an impressive number In 1931, on retirement from the RAF, he gave his for what was then a comparatively small school. medals, sword and aiguilettes to the College. Then, The term ‘ace’ was first used by French newspapers at the age of 57, Rees insisted on serving in the to describe the French pilot Adolphe Pégoud who Second World War and for two years commanded downed five German aircraft and the term has been the allied aerodrome at Helwan in Egypt. He died on used since to describe any airman with five or more 28 September 1955. victories. Remarkably, at a time when the life expec- Hugh Granville White CB CBE (S1913–14) tancy of an airman was measured in weeks, if not joined 20 Squadron in July 1916 at the age of 18, days, all but one of the OE aces survived the war and and was nicknamed ‘Child Pilot’. Flying an FE2d four went on to serve in the Second World War. -
Roll of Honour 1914 –18
EASTBOURNE COLLEGE The Memorial Building ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 –18 The Memorial Panels IN MEMORIAM They will always be remembered. Although now beyond the range of living memory, the Great War is the unforgettable ground of modern life. To begin with, it may have looked like another in a series of European wars – the Napoleonic, the Crimean, the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian – but the effects of this 20th-century war were to shake nations as far away as the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand. Thrown into chaos, the world was changed forever by a war without precedent. Everything from the material and economic to the metaphysical and the psychological was disrupted. A generation was sacrificed. History and geography were dislocated. The values and rules of Western civilization were thrown in question. Men lost faith in the ability to shape or even understand their destiny. Instead they found themselves components of a machine running out of control. New fears stalked the ‘collective unconscious’ (a phrase coined in English in 1917). These huge changes were the sum of millions of individual devastations such as those documented, a century on, in this Roll of Honour. As we know, scarcely any family, village or school was unaffected by personal tragedy, but we must try to remember, too, that each of these names was a son, a promising hope, a beloved, a fellow member of a house or team, a shy or quirky or ambitious youngster, a pupil, a friend. Look at men in the photographs. Some clearly belong to another age, but others might just have walked off College Field. -
Roll of Honour 1914 –18
EASTBOURNE COLLEGE The Memorial Building ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 –18 The Memorial Panels IN MEMORIAM They will always be remembered. Although now beyond the range of living memory, the Great War is the unforgettable ground of modern life. To begin with, it may have looked like another in a series of European wars – the Napoleonic, the Crimean, the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian – but the effects of this 20th-century war were to shake nations as far away as the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand. Thrown into chaos, the world was changed forever by a war without precedent. Everything from the material and economic to the metaphysical and the psychological was disrupted. A generation was sacrificed. History and geography were dislocated. The values and rules of Western civilization were thrown in question. Men lost faith in the ability to shape or even understand their destiny. Instead they found themselves components of a machine running out of control. New fears stalked the ‘collective unconscious’ (a phrase coined in English in 1917). These huge changes were the sum of millions of individual devastations such as those documented, a century on, in this Roll of Honour. As we know, scarcely any family, village or school was unaffected by personal tragedy, but we must try to remember, too, that each of these names was a son, a promising hope, a beloved, a fellow member of a house or team, a shy or quirky or ambitious youngster, a pupil, a friend. Look at men in the photographs. Some clearly belong to another age, but others might just have walked off College Field.