A potentially interesting Great War and later Second World War Air Efficiency Award grouping awarded to Lieutenant F.A. Whitehead, Royal Flying Corps later Acting Flight Lieutenant F.A. Whitehead, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who was initially commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps where he would serve as a Lieutenant, he would suffer an injury on 20th August 1917 and would spend the majority of the rest of the war on general duties, later serving at home during the Second World War with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Group of 5: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (LIEUT. F.A. WHITEHEAD. R.F.C.) Defence Medal and War Medal; Air Efficiency Award, GVIR 1st type bust; (ACT.FLT.LT. F.A. WHITEHEAD. R.A.F.V.R.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
Along with Air Ministry box of issue addressed to F/L F.A. Whitfield, Greenways, Wingrave, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and the medal forwarding slip.
Frederic Arthur Whitfield was initially commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1916 and would later transfer to the Royal Flying Corps where he would serve as a Lieutenant. He would be injured on 20th August 1917, and would spend the majority of the remainder of the war on general duties. His Great War medals would later be sent to an address in Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham on 15th July 1921. He would later see Second World War service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
