Campaign Groups and Pairs

Pair: Second Lieutenant C. N. Crofton-Sleigh, Royal Air ForceBritish War and Victory Medals (Lieut C. N. Crogton-Sleigh. R.A.F.) ‘2nd’ neatly erased before rank on both, otherwise very fine (2) £70-£90---Charles Norman Crofton-Sleigh was born in Malta on 28 December 1893 and was educated at the University of Malta where he studied Electrical Engineering. He entered the Air Service at Roehampton Kite Balloon Station as a temporary probationary Flight Officer on 11 February 1918, and was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force as a Kite Balloon Officer on 7 May 1918. Appearing before a medical board in August 1918, he was declared permanently unfit on 30 September 1918, and resigned his commission on account of ill-health contracted on active service on 19 October 1918, being granted the honorary rank of Second Lieutenant. Sold with copied research.------For more information, additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneers website, www.dnw.co.uk