The mounted group of sixteen miniature dress medals worn by Air Chief-Marshal Sir J. Boothman, Royal Air Force, K.C.B., K.B.E., Second World War D.F.C., Schneider Trophy A.F.C. having flown with Colonel Cody as a schoolboy, served as a teenager driver in the French Red Cross on the Balkan front in 1918: having then gained an ‘exceptional’ rating as a young pilot in the R.A.F., he fought in the Southern Desert Iraq campaign and became a celebrated winner of the Schneider Trophy in 1931 - to which accolades he added a D.F.C. for daring photographic reconnaissance missions while Air Commodore and C.O. of No. 106 Group in the 1939-45 War, missions of crucial importance to the success of D-Day: very much a candidate for election to ‘The Aviation Hall of Fame’, the gallant Boothman latterly served as C.-in-C. of Coastal Command The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel ; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Division, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Flying Cross, G.VI.R.; Air Force Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Southern Desert, Iraq; 1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45 with M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1953; France, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated 1914 to 1918; U.S.A., Legion of Merit with clasp; U.S.A., Distinguished Flying Cross; Czechoslovakia, War Cross 1939-45. Court mounted as worn, very fine or better (16)