WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name

WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name

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WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
  • WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name
WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name

WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name

£65.00

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WW1 medal pair – British War Medal & Victory Medal – Awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force – complete with box of issue with recipient’s name

You are looking at a British War Medal and Victory Medal awarded to Private 2nd Class DONALD ROSS of the Royal Air Force.

The medals are inscribed ‘277253. PTE.2. D.ROSS. R.A.F.’

DONALD ROSS was born on the 3rd of July 1873 at Nigg in Ross-shire, Scotland, and he was an older man when, on the 25th of July 1918, he enrolled as a Private 2nd Class in the newly formed Royal Air Force (R.A.F.).

He served in France from the 17th of August to the 22nd of December 1918, and from the available service record, we know, chronologically, that he joined the British Expeditionary Force, arriving at the 3rd Aircraft Depot (A.D.) on the 22nd of August, then Base Depot (13 Section) on the 22nd of December 1918, then No. 10 Aircraft Acceptance Park on the 31st of December 1918, returning to England and RAF Duddington by the 25th of January 1919.   

During the final months of WW1, from his arrival in France on the 22nd of August to Armistice, DONALD served at the 3rd Aircraft Depot at Courban Airfield, a major logistics base near Chatillon-sur-Seine in France, that received newly boxed aircraft that were built on site, tested and then deployed to front line squadrons, and DONALD, as a ‘Labourer A.C.H.’ or Aircraft Hand, would have been involved in this work....He was therefore involved in the vital replenishment of R.A.F. squadrons operating at the front in the final months of the war.   

As for his post-war service, the No 10 Aircraft Acceptance Park was located at the Saint-Omer (Longuenesse) Aerodrome in France and was involved in the return of front line aircraft that were dismantled, crated and returned to England. 

On the 25th of January 1919, DONALD had left France and was at RAF Duddington on the Northamptonshire/Lincolnshire border, and he was transferred to the R.A.F. Reserve on the 23rd of February.

 

DONALD ROSS was married to MARGARET and on enrolling into the R.A.F., he provided his address in the event of becoming a casualty as 16 Montague Terrace in Edinburgh.

 

SELLER NOTE - This medal has been subject to very basic identification and service verification only, with no extended biographical research undertaken. If further information should come to light in the future, the listing and asking price may be updated accordingly.

SELLER NOTE = Supporting documentation obtained and / or created during this research will be provided.

 

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