A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor
Wing Commander Bill Traynor, MA (Cantab.)
Bill Traynor, my Father, was born at Barrow-in-Furness on 3 January 1919, where his Father was a pattern maker in the Vickers shipyard. In the early 1920s the family moved to Coventry when my grandfather secured a job in the car industry. Bill attended The Bablake School, Coventry, from where he went up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from which he obtained a BA in 1940 later advanced to an MA.
Bill joined the Meteorological Office in January 1941. Commissioned into the R.A.F., he served throughout the rest of the War and was demobilized in July 1946. In September of that year he was appointed Physics Master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, remaining there until he retired in 1982.
In 1947 Bill joined the school unit of the Air Training Corps. When the Combined Cadet Force was rormed in 1949 he became Commanding Officer of the R.A.F. Section. In 1972 he took over command of the whole contingent, retiring with the rank of Wing Commander.
My Father started to collect medals in 1979, joining the O.M.R.S. and the Birmingham Medal Society. He served on the committee of the latter and was its president from 1995 to 1998. Naturally, because of his R.A.F. background, he specialised in collecting medals and groups to those who had served in the R.F.C. and the R.A.F., being especially attracted to gallantry awards and unusual combinations of medals and bars.
Collection Information
Other Collections Sold in 2007
- Buttons from the J.R. Gaunt and Son Pattern Book Archive
- Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E.
- A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor
- The Barrett J. Carr Collection of Boer War Medals
- Exceptional Naval and Polar Awards from the Collection of RC Witte
- The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick
- The Union Bank of Scotland Collection
- The Collection of Short Cross Coins formed by the late Professor Jeffrey P. Mass
- Irish Medals in Gold and Silver from the Collection of James Spencer
- World Art Medals from the Collection of Dr Stephen Martin
- The Godfrey Burr Collection
- British Coins from the Collection of Ernest Danson
- Meritorious Service Medal Groups from the Collection of Ian McInnes
- Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson
- The Roy Bartlett Collection of Awards to the R.N.A.S., R.F.C. and R.A.F.
- A Group of Long Cross Pennies of the Mint of Bury St Edmunds
- A Collection of Nursing and Hospital Badges
- Naval Medals from the collection formed by Captain W. A. Tinlin, M.C., late 14th London Regiment (1880-1965)
- Medals for the Egypt and Sudan Campaigns from the collection of Colin Narbeth
- British Historical Medals from the Collection of Dennis Fig
- A Collection of Sovereigns and Half-Sovereigns, the Property of a West Sussex Collector
- A Collection of British Milled Sixpences
- The Collection of British Bronze Pennies formed by Christopher Spencer
- The Professor B.K. Gills Collection of Ancient and Medieval World Coins and Money
- A Provincial Bank of Ireland Ledger and Banknotes
- A Good Series of Italian Medieval Coins
- A Collection of Coins of Burma (Myanmar)
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