CORPORAL H.H. BRIGGS, ROYAL FLYING CORPS. Victory Medal (officially impressed: 19136. CPL.
£45.00
CORPORAL H.H. BRIGGS, ROYAL FLYING CORPS. Victory Medal (officially impressed: 19136. CPL. H.H. BRIGGS. R.F.C.). Extremely Fine.
Medal accompanied by 3 pages of copied service papers and copied extracts from 1901 and 1911 census returns.
Herbert Hinton Briggs is recorded in the 1901 census return as the 5 year old son of Frank H. Briggs, a 40 year old dentist resident at 41 Park Crescent, Torquay, Devon. In the 1911 census he is recorded as a 15 year old schoolboy living at a boarding house, Edenhurst, Torquay, with his widowed mother and younger brother, Thomas. Briggs enlisted into the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of 2nd Class Air Mechanic on 24/1/1916. He was promoted 1st Class Air Mechanic, 1/8/1916 and Corporal, 1/10/1916. Briggs saw service in France from 19/5/1916 with 70 Squadron and subsequently returned to the UK when he was invalided on 27/1/1917. Briggs saw service with the Royal Air Force on 1/4/1918 and transferred to the RAF Reserve on 12/2/1919/.