Military Cross Research Query

[Postwarden]

Probably not the best place to ask this question but I am trying to establish if an individual named Trevor Lyndon Walters, in WW2 an RAF officer, was entitled to a Military Cross, believed to be for the First World War.

I know that the combined knowledge of Forum members is vast and hope that someone can help with this one as medals are not my strong point.

All thoughts appreciated.

Jon

[manchesters]

Jon,

In his London Gazette entry for his RAF commission he has NO post nominals after his name.

Cant find an earlier military entry nor find him on a WW1 Army List so may not have been an officer in WW1, but still could be awarded the MC as a Warrant Officer and therefore not in the Army Lists.

regards

[Hawthorn]

A quick search for a Medal Index Card for World War One shows no matches on Ancestry UK.

Simon.

[Postwarden]

Simon,

Thanks for that. I should have mentioned that his LG entry does not include post-nominal letters which seems unusual.

He also has on his tunic an India General Service medal ribbon and I have been informed that an RAF Corporal with that name is entitled to the bar Waziristan 1921-24. So he may have won the MC as a WO.

Curiouser and curiouser...

Jon

[54Bty]

LG 21st Jan 1941
TECHNICAL BRANCH.
The undermentioned are granted commissions for the duration of hostilities as Pilot Officers on probation: —Flight Sergeants,
11th Dec. 1940. (Seniority 25th Oct. 1940.) 330751 Trevor Lyndon WALTERS (89408).

Marc

[leigh kitchen]

Now we've gone firm on "89408".
No date other than 1945 I'm afraid:

First Name:
T L
Surname:
Walters
Information:
Officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Completed satisfactorily a short war course at R.A.F. Staff College.
Rank:
War Substantive Flight Lieutenant
Service Number:
89408
Service:
Royal Air Force
Primary Unit:
Technical Branch

[Postwarden]

Thank you, that fills in some of the gaps quite nicely. But why no medal card and why does MC not appear as post nominal letters?

Could he have embellished his service and got away with it or is he just proving hard to track down?

Jon

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

Now we've gone firm on "89408".
No date other than 1945 I'm afraid:

First Name:
T L
Surname:
Walters
Information:
Officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Completed satisfactorily a short war course at R.A.F. Staff College.
Rank:
War Substantive Flight Lieutenant
Service Number:
89408
Service:
Royal Air Force
Primary Unit:
Technical Branch

[leigh kitchen]

A little more info

First Name:
T L
Surname:
Walters
Rank:
Flying Officer
Service Number:
89408
Supplementary Information:
Signal Duties
Service:
Royal Air Force
Primary Unit:
Technical Branch
Archive Reference:
RAF_List_Sept_1942
Seniority Date:
04/09/1939
Collection:
UK Air Force List September 1942


First Name:
T L
Surname:
Walters
Rank:
Flying Officer
Supplementary Information:
War Substantive rank
Service:
Royal Air Force
Primary Unit:
Technical Branch (Signals)
Archive Reference:
RAF_List_Sept_1942
Seniority Date:
25/10/1941
Collection:
UK Air Force List September 1942

[KLR]

Try the GWF
They've just had an enormous thread about a dubious medal - they love that sort of thing!

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...=getNewComment

[Deedubb]

Hello,

Let me know what you find. I believe you are talking about my grandfather.
I believe he did serve in both world wars in the RAF. Sorry, I don't have any information.

Thanks

[dumdum]

I once had the chance to buy the most wonderful "fabricated" group going from Afghanistan, Egypt 1882, Sudan, WW1 trio, QSA, KSA.

The only genuine one was the QSA (for some ordinary unit with only one bar) and the owner had had a serious case of the Walter Mittys.

He had bought medals from pawn broker's and others and had them renamed. Newspapers carried breathless stories of his deeds until he was finally........ rumbled!