Four: Lieutenant F.A. Gill, Royal Air Force, Late Northamptonshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Belgium, National Reconnaissance Medal 1914-18, good very fine, the British issues mounted as worn (4)

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Four: Lieutenant F.A. Gill, Royal Air Force, Late Northamptonshire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Belgium, National Reconnaissance Medal 1914-18, good very fine, the British issues mounted as worn (4)

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Lieutenant Francis Andrew Gill original entered the French Theatre of War in September 1916 as a 2nd Lieutenant of the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. Transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in May 1917, he subsequently qualified as an Observer and was posted to No. 52
Squadron. Remaining in France with the Squadron until the end of the year, he fired his guns in anger on at least one occasion, namely when two Albatros Scouts were confronted north-east of Nieuport on
21.7.1917 ('Thirty rounds were fired from rear gun, driving the enemy aircraft away in an easterly direction...'). Latterly employed in
Seaplanes with 64th Naval Wing in the Middle East, Gill was wounded in a crash on 16.6.1918. He relinquished his Commission in October 1919.