WW1 London Irish, RFC, RAF Officer Group of Medals. Awarded...

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WW1 London Irish, RFC, RAF Officer Group of Medals. Awarded to Lieutenant Bertie Ernest Turney who was commissioned into the 18th Bn London Irish London Regiment and qualified as a Pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in August 1916.
Comprising: British War Medal, Victory Medal LIEUT B.E. TURNEY RAF. This pair is contemporary mounted on a bar with the ribbons of the Territorial Force War Medal and the Territorial Efficiency Medal. Accompanied by a corresponding group of four miniature medals Uniform medal ribbon bar Also a RFC OSD Cap Badge blades absent. (4 parts) Bosleys have been unable to find any reference to the TFWN and TEM having been issued and would explain the ribbons only. Lieutenant Bertie Ernest Turney was commissioned into the London Irish, before been attached to the RFC qualifying as a Pilot on the 1st August 1916 He served with 47 Squadron and 55 Squadron and transferred to Egypt. He was posted to the RAF unemployed list in May 1919, but appears to returned to the London Irish, where the Army list of 1921 shows him serving as a Major. On the 26th October 1929 he was flying as a passenger on an Imperial Airways Short Calcutta which crashed of the coast of Italy All the crew and passengers drowned.