A First World War RAF Trio, awarded to 12290 PTE H.L.TAYLOR, NORTH'D FUS: (later Lieutenant RAF), comprising 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, together with his pilot's leather helmet, Goggle Mask Flying Mark II by the Triplex Goggle Mask & Lens Co.Ltd., related photographs, including a handmade Souvenir album of Sir Alan Chobhams Air Display Sunday 28th July 1935, and ephemera including a typed synopsis of the career of Lieutenant Henry Lumsdon Taylor.
**Lieutenant Lumsdon Taylor was shot in the head in an air fight (described in detail in the ephemera) and was returned to England to recover. After briefly returning to France, he was again sent home where he was posted to an aircraft ferrying unit. On one of his many delivery trips he crashed a Sopwith T.1 Cuckoo at Ossett, Yorkshire. He was unhurt, but the aircraft was severely damaged, photographs of which are included with this lot.