Wilkinson Sword To ROYAL FLYING CORP OFFICER LT BOWEN 21st KILL OF OSWALD BOELKE

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Wilkinson Sword To ROYAL FLYING CORP OFFICER LT BOWEN 21st KILL OF OSWALD BOELKE:
$1599.00

GERMAN ACE BOELKE\'S (THE KNIGHT OF GERMANY)21ST KILL. This is a RARE WILKINSON SWORD SOLD TO ROYAL FLYING CORP PILOT, E.G.A. BOWEN, on 6 February 1914 (COPY OF WILKINSON SALES RECORD INCLUDED IN SALE). Eynon George Arthur Bowen graduated from THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY in December 1913. Lt. Bowen went to France with the Royal Garrison Artillery in June 1915, then volunteered for service with the Royal Flying Corp just two months later, qualifying first as an Observer, then as a Pilot on 6 March 1916. When he returned to the front he was posted to 22 Squadron. On 8 September 1916, he was flying his FE2b, Serial 4921, with Lt. Robert Macallan Stalker, acting as Observer, over Flers on the Somme Battlefield, when they unfortunately became a target for the famous German Ace, Oswald Boelke, the man who trained Baron Manfred von Richtofen. Boelke in his more able aeoplane shot down Bowen\'s aeroplane in flames, killing both Bowen and Stalker. Their bodies were never recovered. A great piece of Aviation History.

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