WW1 Pair & Stuff to Lieutenant RFC Flyer.

A fabulous group of items including a WW1 British war and Victory medal pair correctly named to Lieutenant George Frank Custance of the Royal Flying Corps, his two training note books which are full of hand written information, a wonderful original photograph of him in uniform and lastly his original cap badge.
George F Custance was born in Kings Lynn Norfolk in the December 1899 the only son of a Master Taylor.
He joined the RFC as soon as he was of age and trained to become a pilot at the training centre at Hythe. Soon after qualification in January 1918 he was found unfit to be a pilot and was given the rank of Flight Observer, to accompany the Pilot in two seater aircraft serving with No 2 squadron in a reconnaissance roll.
From June 1918 he was transferred to no 141 squadron serving in the defence of the home counties it is unclear in his service papers if he saw any overseas service, but the cap badge he is wearing in the photograph and included is the rare early royal Naval Air Service officers cap badge, so it is more than likely he was flying in reconnaissance missions for the navy, before the RNAS was merged with the RFC to form the RAF, here a lot more research is needed on this man. It looks as if he had a short career with the Air Force, being discharged in March of 1919, maybe because his heart was set on being a pilot or he wanted to return to the family business in Kings Lynn, whatever he did post war, it is unclear, it was a real shame he did not live to any kind of old age, as he died in 1937 at the age of only 38 years, again a little more digging is needed to discover what happened to him; he was buried in Wisbech Norfolk, not far from his birth place in Kings Lynn.
The medals, cap badge and the ephemera is all in very good original condition, the note books are quite interesting both are full of notes and diagrams. A great and quite scarce lot of an early RAF observer that rarely comes available to purchase and it holds excellent investment potential.

Code: 15771